Re: Bidi reordering engine upgraded

[martin rudalics]

> 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.

martin