right-to-left

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    Julian,

    I am using the new right-to-left feature. Again, thank you for including it. There are a few issues I have discovered so far.

    1) speed: sometimes the characters appear as fast as I type them, and other times the display of characters is considerably behind my typing. I do not know what kind of processing is required in the background, and I wish I could provide more information as to when it occurs. Do you have any ideas?

    2) backspace key: the backspace key does nothing in right-to-left mode. It should delete the last character typed.

    3) disappearing characters on right: text is normally right justified. When you type a space, the entire line moves to the right, hiding part of the first character on the line (the character on the right). As you type more spaces, more characters on the right are hidden. As soon as you type a non-space character, the line moves to the left and all characters come into view. This also occurs during word-wrapping if a space is the last character in the line of a paragraph.

    4) what is the difference between the wpRightToLeft and wpAutoRightToLeft settings? My thought was that wpRightToLeft forced the mode all of the time and the wpAutoRightToLeft setting used the current Windows language mode. Is this correct?

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    >>1) speed: sometimes the characters appear as fast as I type them, and other times the display of characters is considerably behind my typing. I do not know what kind of processing is required in the background, and I wish I could provide more information as to when it occurs. Do you have any ideas? <<

    RightToLeft writing should not reduce the speed characters are inserted since in memory they of course are inserted left-to-right so the same code is running. If there is a dealy maybe you have a running process on your system consuming a lot of CPU? I had that in the past quite often.

    >>2) backspace key: the backspace key does nothing in right-to-left mode. It should delete the last character typed. <<

    In V4.20 it should work alright - I just tested it.

    >> 3) disappearing characters on right: text is normally right justified. When you type a space, the entire line moves to the right, hiding part of the first character on the line (the character on the right). As you type more spaces, more characters on the right are hidden. As soon as you type a non-space character, the line moves to the left and all characters come into view. This also occurs during word-wrapping if a space is the last character in the line of a paragraph. <<

    I can see that.

    >> 4) what is the difference between the wpRightToLeft and wpAutoRightToLeft settings? My thought was that wpRightToLeft forced the mode all of the time and the wpAutoRightToLeft setting used the current Windows language mode. Is this correct?<<

    The language mode is not used, the font is used. So if you are using arabic or hebrewic fonts it switches to RTL otherwise use LTR. This is the mode which works most like Word.

    Julian Ziersch