[Okular-devel] Bug 325650 - reading direction Right to Left

[Ganesh Kumar]

Hi.
I had the use case suggested by Luigi in mind. I didn't know about mangas
as I dont read them, but the proposer of this bug had mentioned that it was
tough to read Urdu/Arabic documents in Okular because of the very same
issue. I was more concerned with that.
The functionality I am trying to implement is a ToggleAction in say, the
Settings Menu. On setting it, if the view mode is Facing Pages, I am going
to swap the columns, like in the picture. On deselecting it, it must revert
to the usual arrangement,

Bug Documentation:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.okular/15473

Expected Output:
http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=82675

Current Output:
http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=82676


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>wrote:

> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> > El Diumenge, 30 de març de 2014, a les 16:47:51, Luigi Toscano va
> escriure:
> >> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> >>> El Diumenge, 30 de març de 2014, a les 08:13:41, Ganesh Kumar va
> escriure:
> >>>> Hi.
> >>>> I am currently working on this bug.
> >>>> I have added a new Action, and on setting default to 1, the Right to
> Left
> >>>> modification actually works, with Page 2 coming to the right of Page
> 3.
> >>>> However, I am unable to find a way to *integrate the new
> functionality as
> >>>> an option in the View menu.* I am looking at something like the Trim
> >>>> Margins option in the View menu, which can be toggled by the user at
> run
> >>>> time.
> >>>
> >>> I honestly don't think we need to clutter the View menu with this
> option.
> >>> Settings is enough.
> >>
> >> I don't use them, but I think that if you read comics (cbr) it could
> happen
> >> to switch from left-to-right to right-to-left and back when you open a
> new
> >> file,
> >
> > Why would you need that?
>
> Because mangas for example are right-to-left, and at least the Italian
> translations are now (in the last 10/15 years) published (paper) according
> the
> original format. I don't know how it works in other countries. Just a
> quick note.
> If this is not the original use case, I'm curious: Ganesh, what was the use
> case you had in mind?
>
> Ciao
> --
> Luigi
>
>
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-- 
Regards,
*Ganesh P Kumar*
CS11B015
3rd year Undergraduate
Dept. of CS&E, IIT-M
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