On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:09:01PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:33:23 +0100 > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Still, I maintain that detecting the text direction automatically based > > on the Unicode code point would simplify things. > > Yes, why not actually.
I don't think this is a good idea. When you set a RTL language, LyX knows that you are going to write from right to left. When you enter a character belonging to a RTL language, how are you going to guess that the user wants to write from right to left or simply enter a sequence of characters (for whatever reason)? On the other hand you can't switch direction in the output as that would be very confusing. I don't think that LyX should try to be too clever, as that often results into doing stupid things. -- Enrico
