[Cuis-dev] Bidirectional text support

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi David,

This is wonderful. Thank you!

I still could not look at it in detail, but I can say that the change 
you need in #withAttributeValues:do: is harmless. I have already pushed 
it to GitHub.

Cheers,

On 5/8/2023 7:24 AM, David Faitelson via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Following Juan's suggestion, I have begun working on support for 
> presenting and editing bidirectional (left-to-right and right-to-left) 
> text in Cuis.
>
> You can test drive my current progress in the repository 
> https://github.com/drdavidf/Cuis-Smalltalk-BidiText.git
>
> Currently for this to work you need to change the implementation of 
> Text >> withAttributeValuesDo:
>
> Set alignment := nil instead of alignment := 0.
>
> This change is harmless as far as I could test, but without it the 
> default alignment for all text becomes left-to-right, even if the text 
> is right-to-left.
>
> I hope that later Juan will insert this change into core Cuis.
>
> You can see how Bidi text looks and behaves by running BidiTextMorph 
> >> example.
>
> I think that it is best if any you create github issues for any 
> problems you find, and any enhancements/changes/features you think 
> should be added. This will make it easier to keep track of the 
> progress of this work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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