Issue 13096 - imitating pango's underlining of a non-RTL word in a LTR text and vice versa.
Summary: imitating pango's underlining of a non-RTL word in a LTR text and vice versa.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: BiDi (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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URL: http://www.pango.org/entries.png
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Reported: 2003-04-06 19:19 UTC by mehlng
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description mehlng 2003-04-06 19:19:53 UTC
Pango.org which is the text component of Gtk, has the feature to highlight (by
underlining) text ehose directionality is different from the paragraphs
direction when the cursor is "standing" on it this is a very usefull feature
that aids alot whith BiDi texts. I think adding it can assist alot to the ME OOo
integration.
Thanks
Comment 1 Dieter.Loeschky 2003-04-22 11:43:34 UTC
DL->HDU: Would you please takeover?
Comment 2 hdu@apache.org 2003-04-30 07:05:31 UTC
HDU->FT: Please decide this feature request. 
  Paragraph direction is not known in VCL level, so the app levels (FME+MT) 
  would have to do this. 
Comment 3 mehlng 2003-05-11 14:05:10 UTC
Is anything decided? if so, please let us know.
It's very rewarding to the bugreporters when relevant commnets are
posted regulary.
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 10:58:55 UTC
This would to look different in different platforms.
This is inaccepptable. We therefore introduced the directional cursor
flag .
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 10:59:10 UTC
Closed
Comment 6 mehlng 2003-10-18 19:05:05 UTC
> This would to look different in different platforms.
Why? do explain why. There's no reason it'll look different in other
platforms just like Pango looks EXACTLY the same on ALL platforms.
It's simply irrational there's no reason whatsoever for it to happen.
Abiword did it cross-platformed - there's no reason we can't.
> This is inaccepptable. We therefore introduced the directional cursor
> flag .
Except the above - the directional cursor (which wasn't working until
recently BTW) is not related to this feature. It's completey different
other topic relating to which state is the LAST character. This
extremely usefull Pango feature implies which text is in the opposite
direction.
Abiword has BOTH directional cursor flag AND the discussed Pango feature.

Comment 7 sforbes 2003-10-28 12:19:47 UTC
>Abiword has BOTH directional cursor flag AND the discussed Pango feature

I  don't see either in my copy of AbiWord (2.0.0). How do I enable them?

at any rate, I am not sure how usefull this would be once we get the
directional caret working properly.
Comment 8 mehlng 2003-10-28 13:10:05 UTC
see http://www.pango.org/entries.png for a similar behaviour, I'm using Xchat 2 now 
and this behaviour is still here. 
This is *not* related to the cursor. It's a completely different thing. It shows you how 
much text before you is opposite direction of paragraph's direction (say, I've written 
", ASIAN TEXT" it tells me whether the comma is L2R or not) by encupsulating all 
L2R text with an underline (this is not the case with the pango example I've linked to) 
and (like in pango's example) inserting another weaker caret in the beggining of the 
L2R/R2L text. 
It's helpfull and not related to the caret.  
Comment 9 falko.tesch 2003-11-04 16:50:05 UTC
Set target (based on PCD relevance)
Comment 10 falko.tesch 2005-10-20 21:17:58 UTC
FT: Re-assigned to default requirement owner
Comment 11 ace_dent 2008-05-16 01:40:54 UTC
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

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has not been updated within the last 2+ years. Please consider re-testing with
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Andrew
 
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