Remove hardcoded values

[lyx.git] / src / TextMetrics.cpp

diff --git a/src/TextMetrics.cpp b/src/TextMetrics.cpp
index 8f7ac821e8777339e2babbd73cd44805f2968963..17ee2e410afe56b0c3325953cef3a82cb1d251ef 100644 (file)
--- a/src/TextMetrics.cpp
+++ b/src/TextMetrics.cpp
@@ -864,7 +864,23 @@ bool TextMetrics::breakRow(Row & row, int const right_margin) const
                } else if (c == '\t')
                        row.addSpace(i, theFontMetrics(*fi).width(from_ascii("    ")),
                                     *fi, par.lookupChange(i));
-               else {
+               else if (c == 0x2028 || c == 0x2029) {
+                       /**
+                        * U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR
+                        * U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
+
+                        * These are special unicode characters that break
+                        * lines/pragraphs. Not handling them lead to trouble wrt
+                        * Qt QTextLayout formatting. We add a visible character
+                        * on screen so that the user can see that something is
+                        * happening.
+                       */
+                       row.finalizeLast();
+                       // ⤶ U+2936 ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN CURVING LEFTWARDS
+                       // ¶ U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
+                       char_type const screen_char = (c == 0x2028) ? 0x2936 : 0x00B6;
+                       row.add(i, screen_char, *fi, par.lookupChange(i));
+               } else {
                        // FIXME: please someone fix the Hebrew/Arabic parenthesis mess!
                        // see also Paragraph::getUChar.
                        if (fi->language()->lang() == "hebrew") {
@@ -925,6 +941,7 @@ bool TextMetrics::breakRow(Row & row, int const right_margin) const
                BufferParams const & bparams
                        = text_->inset().buffer().params();
                f.setLanguage(par.getParLanguage(bparams));
+               // ¶ U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
                row.addVirtual(end, docstring(1, char_type(0x00B6)), f, Change());
        }