Bug: Need better text selection for RTL text

Is there an open case for this? If so, would you please attach this thread to it? If not, would you open a case please?

Sure! Sorry it wasn't included in my initial report.

The original post occurs in Lesson 3, Practice, part G.

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2009-10-27T03:15:50Z
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Philana R. Crouch said:

I'm not able to reproduce the partial application of highlights. Can you let me know if you have any text or program scaling turned on?

Content scaling and program scaling are both at 100%.

I don't think the selection/highlighting behaves consistently. If I erase the highlight then reselect it and highlight it again, I mostly get a missing first letter, and the note looks like this:

Continuing to repeat that, it occasionally actually highlights the whole word (which completely appears in the note), but the screen selection spontaneously switches to something slightly different right after the highlight was applied.

As far as I can tell, the selection looks identical in either case before highlighting (and I am selecting by dragging from the left/end of the word, toward the right/beginning of the word).

The "missing first letter" effect even appears during selection on the entire verse. Again with "Word" text selection, the selection doesn't seem to include the very first letter.

And if I turn that selection into a note, the first consonant is left off, but the sheva isn't.

I just think something specific about BBH is problematic. If you look at this (arbitrary) selection of part of sentence 1, sentence 2, and part of sentence 3, it not only still misses the first letter of sentence 2, it selects something invisible (whitespace?) right before the last word in sentence 2.

Dave Hooton said:

So, does this happen in Hebrew bibles?

No selection/highlighting issues in Hebrew bibles with text selection or highlighting. I haven't run into issues in Hebrew lexicons either.

Since BBH is referred to frequently by HB101, I tend to make lots of notes in it, with mixed success.

I assume there's something specific about the its Unicode and/or formatting that's tripping up the selection/highlighting for that resource.

Thanks, Philana! Who knows, maybe resolving the text selection will fix the highlighting.

It is interesting that when the whole word did intermittently get highlighted, the selection spontaneously shifted to include the space before the word.

My "workaround" has been to select that space too to ensure that the whole word gets highlighted. An extra space in the note is better than a missing letter!

(Unfortunately, that "workaround" doesn't work at the beginning of a line, because there's nothing before the first word to select.)