Therefore I don't see a reason why LyX cannot support Urdu. Attached is the patch and a LyX testfile to play with.
The patch also enables Syriac which is another RTL language supported by polyglossia.
regards Uwe
Urdu-Test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
development/FORMAT | 5 +++++
lib/languages | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_3.py | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/tex2lyx/Preamble.cpp | 12 ++++++------
src/version.h | 4 ++--
5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/development/FORMAT b/development/FORMAT
index e615671..36ace3e 100644
--- a/development/FORMAT
+++ b/development/FORMAT
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ adjustments are made to tex2lyx and bugs are fixed in
lyx2lyx.
-----------------------
+2016-10-23 Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de>
+ * Format incremented to 515: support for Urdu and Syriac:
+ \lang urdu
+ \lang syriac
+
2016-10-22 Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de>
* Format incremented to 514: support for Amharic etc.:
\lang amharic
diff --git a/lib/languages b/lib/languages
index f126e69..fa9019e 100644
--- a/lib/languages
+++ b/lib/languages
@@ -1064,13 +1064,13 @@ Language swedish
End
# not supported by babel
-#Language syriac
-# GuiName "Syriac"
-# PolyglossiaName syriac
-# Encoding utf8
-# RTL true
-# LangCode syr_SY
-#End
+Language syriac
+ GuiName "Syriac"
+ PolyglossiaName syriac
+ Encoding utf8
+ RTL true
+ LangCode syr_SY
+End
# not supported by babel
Language tamil
@@ -1155,13 +1155,13 @@ Language uppersorbian
End
# not supported by babel
-#Language urdu
-# GuiName "Urdu"
-# PolyglossiaName urdu
-# Encoding utf8
-# RTL true
-# LangCode ur_PK
-#End
+Language urdu
+ GuiName "Urdu"
+ PolyglossiaName urdu
+ Encoding utf8
+ RTL true
+ LangCode ur_PK
+End
# vietnam must be loaded locally with babel options,
# not globally via class options, see
diff --git a/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_3.py b/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_3.py
index 3a1b292..65b5188 100644
--- a/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_3.py
+++ b/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_3.py
@@ -441,6 +441,48 @@ def revert_khmer(document):
"\\end_layout", ""]
+def revert_urdu(document):
+ "Set the document language to English but assure Urdu output"
+
+ if document.language == "urdu":
+ document.language = "english"
+ i = find_token(document.header, "\\language urdu", 0)
+ if i != -1:
+ document.header[i] = "\\language english"
+ j = find_token(document.header, "\\language_package default", 0)
+ if j != -1:
+ document.header[j] = "\\language_package default"
+ add_to_preamble(document,
["\\AtBeginDocument{\setotherlanguage{urdu}}"])
+ document.body[2 : 2] = ["\\begin_layout Standard",
+ "\\begin_inset ERT", "status open", "",
+ "\\begin_layout Plain Layout", "", "",
+ "\\backslash",
+ "resetdefaultlanguage{urdu}",
+ "\\end_layout", "", "\\end_inset", "", "",
+ "\\end_layout", ""]
+
+
+def revert_syriac(document):
+ "Set the document language to English but assure Syriac output"
+
+ if document.language == "syriac":
+ document.language = "english"
+ i = find_token(document.header, "\\language syriac", 0)
+ if i != -1:
+ document.header[i] = "\\language english"
+ j = find_token(document.header, "\\language_package default", 0)
+ if j != -1:
+ document.header[j] = "\\language_package default"
+ add_to_preamble(document,
["\\AtBeginDocument{\setotherlanguage{syriac}}"])
+ document.body[2 : 2] = ["\\begin_layout Standard",
+ "\\begin_inset ERT", "status open", "",
+ "\\begin_layout Plain Layout", "", "",
+ "\\backslash",
+ "resetdefaultlanguage{syriac}",
+ "\\end_layout", "", "\\end_inset", "", "",
+ "\\end_layout", ""]
+
+
##
# Conversion hub
#
@@ -452,10 +494,12 @@ convert = [
[511, [convert_ibranches]],
[512, [convert_beamer_article_styles]],
[513, []],
- [514, []]
+ [514, []],
+ [515, []]
]
revert = [
+ [514, [revert_urdu, revert_syriac]],
[513, [revert_amharic, revert_asturian, revert_kannada,
revert_khmer]],
[512, [revert_bosnian, revert_friulan, revert_macedonian,
revert_piedmontese, revert_romansh]],
[511, [revert_beamer_article_styles]],
diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/Preamble.cpp b/src/tex2lyx/Preamble.cpp
index 99052eb..7d6a07c 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/Preamble.cpp
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/Preamble.cpp
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ const char * const Preamble::polyglossia_languages[] = {
"lao", "latin", "latvian", "lithuanian", "lsorbian", "magyar", "malayalam",
"marathi",
"austrian", "newzealand", "german", "norsk", "nynorsk", "occitan",
"piedmontese", "polish", "polytonic", "portuges", "romanian", "romansh",
"russian",
-"samin", "sanskrit", "scottish", "serbian", "slovak", "slovenian", "spanish",
"swedish",
+"samin", "sanskrit", "scottish", "serbian", "slovak", "slovenian", "spanish",
"swedish", "syriac",
"tamil", "telugu", "thai", "tibetan", "turkish", "turkmen",
-"ukrainian", "usorbian", "vietnamese", "welsh", 0};
-// not yet supported by LyX: "korean", "nko", "syriac", "urdu"
+"ukrainian", "urdu", "usorbian", "vietnamese", "welsh", 0};
+// not yet supported by LyX: "korean", "nko"
/**
* the same as polyglossia_languages with .lyx names
@@ -325,10 +325,10 @@ const char * const
Preamble::coded_polyglossia_languages[] = {
"lao", "latin", "latvian", "lithuanian", "lowersorbian", "magyar",
"malayalam", "marathi",
"naustrian","newzealand", "ngerman", "norsk", "nynorsk", "occitan",
"piedmontese", "polish", "polutonikogreek", "portuges", "romanian", "romansh",
"russian",
-"samin", "sanskrit", "scottish", "serbian", "slovak", "slovene", "spanish",
"swedish",
+"samin", "sanskrit", "scottish", "serbian", "slovak", "slovene", "spanish",
"swedish", "syriac",
"tamil", "telugu", "thai", "tibetan", "turkish", "turkmen",
-"ukrainian", "uppersorbian", "vietnamese", "welsh", 0};
-// not yet supported by LyX: "korean-polyglossia", "nko", "syriac", "urdu"
+"ukrainian", "urdu", "uppersorbian", "vietnamese", "welsh", 0};
+// not yet supported by LyX: "korean-polyglossia", "nko"
bool Preamble::usePolyglossia() const
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 69de0ab..46c2ebc 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ extern char const * const lyx_version_info;
// Do not remove the comment below, so we get merge conflict in
// independent branches. Instead add your own.
-#define LYX_FORMAT_LYX 514 // uwestoehr: support for Amharic etc.
-#define LYX_FORMAT_TEX2LYX 514
+#define LYX_FORMAT_LYX 515 // uwestoehr: support for Urdu and Syriac
+#define LYX_FORMAT_TEX2LYX 515
#if LYX_FORMAT_TEX2LYX != LYX_FORMAT_LYX
#ifndef _MSC_VER
