Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Scrollback etc in cjk-mode

[Araki K. <j00...@ip...>]

	Hi,

	Subject: [Mlterm-dev-en] Scrollback etc in cjk-mode
	From: Karl Koehler <ko...@or...>
	Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.1020207190552.84649A-100000@r53aix01-tr0.or.uni=
-bonn.de>
	Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:42:33 +0100 (MEZ)

> This leads to some wishes for the wishlist:
> a) scrollback should work left-to-right, not bottom-to-top.
> b) arabic from bottom-to-top looks strange, especially as it is=20
>    not joined. One could think of doing bidi the following way:
>    + right-to-left: rotate 90deg counterclockwise
>    + left-to-right:=A0maybe rotate 90deg clockwise

        Wow !

        I'm sorry , but it is too difficult to implement them for now.

        For example , rotation makes height of characters half , but mlterm
        assumes all characters has the same height.
        To solve such a problem , I have to modify many codes.
       =20
        After all , I adopted an easy design where such a full-spec vertical
        view (left-to-right scrollbar , arabic shaping , character rotation=
 ...)
        is not considered , since it is not difficult to maintenance and is
        nevertheless practical for CJK people.

        Of cource , I may challenge in the future (and will modify over ten
        thousand steps in the end) , but I have no plan for now.

> In attempting b), I have a question:
> In ml_font.c, the font-name is created with:
> =20
>  sprintf( fontname , "-*-%s-%s-%s-%s--%d-*-%s-*-%s" ,
>           family , weight , slant , width , fontsize , spacing , encoding=
) ;
>
> This specifies pointsize to be '*', and leaves out xres and yres values.
> Is there a reason to not do a full specification, that is:
>
>  sprintf( fontname , "-*-%s-%s-%s-%s--%d-*-*-*-%s-*-%s" ,
>           family , weight , slant , width , fontsize , spacing , encoding=
) ;
>
> ( the three stars being pointsize, xres,yres ).

        This is my mistake.
        I'll fix it , thanks:)

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