On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:20 pm, mohamed salah wrote: > Hello All, > I would like to offer my help in adding Right to left layout support > to fop. I think I can help because this is my job in the 1st place. I > work as a BIDI level 3 support in IBM Egypt. > I can help in doing the following: > 1- Provide BIDI knowlage base. > 2- Perform Develpoment tasks > 3- Perform testing tasks.
Great, all 3 forms of help will be appreciated. May I suggest as starting points: 1) If you haven't done so get a copy of the latest FOP version and establish yourself a development environment. Most of the relevant information for this is either on the FOP website: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ or the FOP WIKI: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FrontPage and especially http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FOPIDESetupGuide. 2) Familiarize yourself with the XSL-FO spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/) especially with the section on BIDI (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice5.html#section-N6720-Unicode-BIDI-Processing) 3) There are some thoughts on BIDI and FOP documented on http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FOPWritingModesAndBidiDesign. You may want to check those. 4) Make yourself familiar with the FOP test system. See: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowToCreateLayoutEngineTests. Come back, ask questions, make suggestions, document ideas on a WIKI page.... Its largely up to you how to proceed. But this mailing list is your best friend and don't hesitate to ask questions or for help. I have a starting question for you: Is there a useable Arabic or Hebrew or any other r-l font around we can use under the Apache license for testing? Thank you Manuel > > I gaind a lot of experiance in fop will using it to implement Arabic > right to left PDF. > I also want to suggest adding the support of adding implicit test to > fop directly. > ( Implicit test means characters as you type on the keyboard, for > Arabic/Hebrew additional proccessing needs to be done. I want fop do > this by him self) > > Wainting to hear from you. > > Thanks, > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > Eng. Mohamed Salah Sayed > Computer and System Engineer > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: 0124075487 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
