Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Dov, I don't understand why you would need to keep the logical behavior. In my opinion it is just bad, but we have all gotten used to it so it feels familiar. I will join the devel thread as Stefan requested. Miki "Dov Feldstern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Georg Baum
Dov Feldstern wrote: > Back to RTL spaces: > > The problem is this: almost always, the user just wanted a space between > the previous word (which happened to be, say English) and the next one > (which happens to be Hebrew), but by mistake pressed F12 before space > and not first space and only t

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Now we have two threads in lyx-users and lyx-devels. Miki, are you on lyx-devels as well? Then we can continue there with the discussion. Stefan Am 05.06.2007 um 18:11 schrieb Miki Dovrat: Hi, I am having trouble following your examples, but my opinion is that no MAGIC should happen. Spa

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, I already replied Stefan off list, but I will post this again so anyone can comment. The brain (at least mine) does not like movement to the opposite side. When you press the left arrow, you expect the cursor to move to the left. Try riding a bike with the hands crossed

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 21:06 schrieb Miki Dovrat: > Lyx has an option of underlining the foreign text. What I meant was that I > always turn that off, so I can't tell which direction the spaces belong to. Now I understand. I did not know that you can turn it off :-) Georg

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, I already replied Stefan off list, but I will post this again so anyone can comment. The brain (at least mine) does not like movement to the opposite side. When you press the left arrow, you expect the cursor to move to the left. Try riding a bike with the hands crossed, wear a helmet!!! So

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Lyx has an option of underlining the foreign text. What I meant was that I always turn that off, so I can't tell which direction the spaces belong to. I don't mind that each space should have a definitive direction, I think the best way would be that the border spaces will always have the direct

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Another open question (at least to me): how common and convenient is this logical cursor movement? For me it is rather strange and confusing. But maybe one just needs some years of working with it to get used to it intuitively. I ask because I don't think it's very complicated to add visual

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Definitely the non-magic solution: If you enter a space it gets the direction (RTL or LTR) of the current font, and is drawn on screen according to that direction (place and underlining), and cursor navigation follows that direction. It should not be possible to enter two consecutive spaces (on

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: > The users (at least me) don't know whether the space is RTL or LTR because > they don't "mark RTL code" since it is annoying to look at when writing a > document in RTL. I don't understand what you mean here. When you write a mixed hebrew/english document you have to explicit

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
> > Definitely the non-magic solution: If you enter a space it gets the > direction (RTL or LTR) of the current font, and is drawn on screen > according to that direction (place and underlining), and cursor navigation > follows that direction. > It should not be possible to enter two consecutive sp

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Stefan Schimanski wrote: > There are several possibilities now to interpret the underlined > spaces (short RTL spaces): > > * The LyX 1.3 magic way: the RTL spaces behave in fact like LTR > spaces, i.e. they are put where non-underlined spaces would be. See > this example: This magic has b

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, I am having trouble following your examples, but my opinion is that no MAGIC should happen. Spaces jumping from side to side or characters at the end of a RTL jumping to the beginning and such are so annoying!!! The user can never tell where he/she is as far as LTR or RTL is concerned. My

WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hi! Myself and Dov Feldstern are working on the support for Right-To-Left languages in LyX. In the latest RC1 there are many things which are not the way they should be. As we are not using Right-To-Left ourself we lack a bit the experience how it should look like and what is most conveni