Re: [Fresco-devel] Babylon Strings

Hello,

I'm new to Fresco, so take this FWIW...

At 6:52 AM -0400 7/18/03, Tobias Hunger wrote:
>What do you think? Is this what we need at the Babylon level of the
>design?

I don't think so.  To expand on what Evan wrote, consider a string whose
logical order (memory order) is:

    English words THAT CONTAIN ARABIC as well

Doesn't the so-called visual order depend on the space in which you are
trying to display it?  For instance, a narrow display area:

    | English words TAHT |
    | CIBARA NIATNOC as  |
    | well               |

vs a wider one:

    | English words NIATNOC TAHT |
    | CIBARA as well             |

I would think that (ideally) the only module that should care about visual
order is the text layout engine.

David