Hello,
The features/str-metrics branch is now to a point where I think it is
ready to land on master, where further fixing can take place. Before I
do that, I would be grateful if some of you could try it out and report
their findings.
I hope that all problems related to Arabic of Hebrew script are now
solved, but one never knows...
The performance seems pretty good to me. My unscientific measure is to
load user guide, move the scrollbar thumb up and doewn and see how the
thumb lags behind the mouse.
One can improve further the performance by un-checking the option "use
justification in LyX workarea" in document settings. This is because it
allows an optimization where strings are drawn several words at a time.
This can be done for justified text too, but requires more work.
Ticket #9003
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9003
is the place where one can follow what happened wrt this feature. There
are still a couple open bugs, I'd appreciate feedback on these, since I
cannot reproduce.
Thanks for your help.
JMarc
