From: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bidi reordering engine upgraded
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:21:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544117E3.4030201@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54410094.3020507@gmx.at>
martin rudalics wrote:
> > This is because to the human eye pixels are similar to points in math
> > (i.e.has location, does not have extent). Therefor, a mental
> "magnifying
> > glass" (in order to be useful) needs to preserve the point-like property
> > of pixels unaffected from the "zoom factor".
> >
> > Which means that what counts for line length is not number of pixels
> > but the spaces between. See line of length 10, magnified:
> >
> > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
> > * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> I doubt my eye (and whatever there's left behind it) would consider
>
> 0
> *
>
> having zero extent.
Nobody would consider a single pixel to mean anything in particular.
For that to happen it needs to be placed in relation to other pixels.
For example two pixels can make a line already.
--- grischka
> martin
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-17 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-17 11:12 Bidi reordering engine upgraded grischka
2014-10-17 11:42 ` martin rudalics
2014-10-17 11:47 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-17 13:21 ` grischka [this message]
2014-10-17 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-10-15 14:51 Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 15:22 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-10-15 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 16:00 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-10-15 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 3:55 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-10-16 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 9:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-16 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 13:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-16 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 5:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-17 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 7:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-17 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 10:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-17 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 9:51 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-10-16 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 17:45 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-18 12:34 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-18 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-18 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 11:45 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-19 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 11:49 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-19 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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