Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 23:01 schrieb Dov Feldstern: > I think that the reason for having the flag is just for efficiency: in > the end, the direction *is* determined by the language. However, this > means that you have to check every single letter to determine whether it > belongs to an RTL or LTR language. This is the Bidi algorithm, which was > implemented in LyX by Dekel Tsur, and the implementation is LyX is very > good. However, it is costly. So if we know that we won't be using RTL > languages, it's more efficient to just turn off this flag, and then the > whole Bidi algorithm is skipped. > > So yes, the direction is ultimately determined by the language, but > there's still a point in having the flag.
Then please let's ignore this flag for now. We just switch it on for all further comparisions, ignore what happens when it is switched off, and decide later when RTL works correctly if it is still needed. OK? Georg
