---
title: bidiProcessingEnabled
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsatstypesetter/bidiprocessingenabled
---

# bidiProcessingEnabled

A Boolean value controlling whether the typesetter performs bidirectional text processing.

## Declaration

```swift
var bidiProcessingEnabled: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion You can use this method to disable the bidirectional layout stage if you know the paragraph does not need this stage; that is, if the characters in the backing store are in display order.

## See Also

### Accessing the layout manager

- [layoutManager](appkit/nsatstypesetter/layoutmanager.md)
- [usesFontLeading](appkit/nsatstypesetter/usesfontleading.md)
- [typesetterBehavior](appkit/nsatstypesetter/typesetterbehavior.md)
- [hyphenationFactor](appkit/nsatstypesetter/hyphenationfactor.md)