1 Jan
2009
1 Jan
'09
11:27 p.m.
Jonathan Fine
Yannis Haralambous wrote:
the original DVI format already supports 4-byte character, what more Unicode-savviness do you need? Of course one should decide whether DVI should contain glyph indexes or Unicode codepoints.
I'd like bidirectional information to be available.
Fundamentally DVI describes isolated graphemes on paper. No sequence is implied, no relation between glyphs, most certainly not directional. Not even spaces are discernible, nor is it possible to rejoin hyphenated words and/or line breaks or even do cut&paste except by heuristics. So I don't think that the DVI format does not make for a sensible starting point for embedding such information. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum