Georg Baum wrote:
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?
Yes for me.
Abdel.
