From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error during redisplay
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:59:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ir0aubo1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JUB5Y-0006s3-Ph@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:28:04 +0900")
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> The current design requires to add `composition' property to a string
> to properly display the string if it contains, for instance, some of
> Indic characters, and to add `auto-composed' property to avoid the
> repeated generation of `composition' property.
>
>> If they SHOULD have these properties, probably we should make sure they have
>> these properties from the start, or from an early point in building Emacs.
>
> That's impossible. How to compose them depends on which
> font to use.
Since the same string can be displayed with different fonts
simultaneously, this would look like a fault in the design. The
composition property/whatever apparently needs to be associated with the
actual display, not just the string.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 2:56 Error during redisplay Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-26 1:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-26 4:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-26 4:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-27 1:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-27 6:59 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-02-27 8:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-27 8:34 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-27 16:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-27 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-28 6:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-28 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-27 16:07 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-27 3:15 ` Bob Rogers
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