Re: Text Editor

At 23:19 08/11/09, Andre Schappo wrote:
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>I am new to this list so apologies if I initially go over old ground.
>
>I have just been reading <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls > and have experimented with both unicode and html methods of  
>controlling directionality.
>
>What I would really like is a Text Editor that I can toggle between  
>"bidi display mode" and "logical display mode"
>
>By "logical display mode" I mean that the editor shows the raw  
>underlying characters ie the order they were typed in
>
>By "bidi display mode" I mean displaying the final form after  
>application of the direction directives/"character properties".
>
>Anyone know of such a Text Editor ?? I am using Leopard on an Apple Mac.
>
>I have already tried several editors and also gone down to the Unix  
>level (pico & vi) but none provide both display modes.

Your "logical display mode" would mean that e.g. Arabic and Hebrew
are written left-to-right, which would simply be unreadable. So that
would be my explanation for why such an editor doesn't exist.
It may be possible to find an editor that essentially does
"logical display" by simply using an editor that doesn't do
any bidi processing. But even editors that don't do any bidi
processing these days may end up with some kind of poor bidi
display, because of the way they use an underlying (OS or
window system) rendering engine.

For a somewhat different approach on how to edit bidi html
and xml, please have a look at
http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2005/pub/IUC28-bidi/ and
http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2008/pub/IUC32-bidi/.
Comments and questions welcome.

Regards,   Martin.



#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

Received on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:24:46 UTC