From: Simon Montagu (smontagu@smontagu.org)
Date: Sun Jun 19 2005 - 13:55:37 CDT
Richard Wordingham wrote:
> As an aside, I'm beginning to get confused by the 'order'
> terminology. I use to assume that visual order was the(?) orderly
> order the eye would follow when reading, but that does not seem to be
> so for RTL scripts! If I want the first sense, do I have to say
> typewriter order for RTL scripts?
Visual order is orthogonal to directionality. Generally when "visual" is
used without qualification it means "visual left-to-right", but visual
right-to-left can also be used.
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