From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 20:43:42 EST
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Subject: Re: commit (head) more uniscribe
From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Fri, March 12, 2004 12:42 pm
To: "Charles Goodwin" <charlie_at_xwt.org>
Cc: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
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> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 01:23, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> Oh wat about spell checking? I think the underlining code might need
the widths.
>
> That just sounds wrong. Why should a spell checker care about the width
of a character or word? Perhaps the length of a word in characters, but
surely spelling is utterly independent of the display width of a word.
>
> I'm not saying you're wrong. But it _should_ be wrong. ;)
Something has to know how far to draw the red squiggle on the screen. I
believe that right now that is calculated using the fl_BlockLayout char
width cache. In any case I'm asking Tomas to check before removing it.
He may well come up with a better solution. He usually does:-)
Ah while I think of it check that zooming will still work.
Martin
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