--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From the interview with Bart he said he'd be very > interested in joint > efforts for Office filters. Well wv is of course > GPL'd so they can't link > it directly, however it would be rather easy to wrap > wv with a bonobo > layer which can be executed from within hancom with > no problems. We of > course could just link it directly :-) > > Dom might want to do this anyway to provide an MS > Word filter for any > Gnome application. > > The great win for us is that we get paid developer > support on wv. > > However wv is Dom's lib and it will be some work for > him to support this. > > Cheers > > Martin > > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Paul Rohr wrote: > > > At 03:11 PM 5/13/02 -0700, I wrote: > > >Instead, I'll put the ball back in your court. > Can you think of a better > > >way to take Bart up on his offer of help? I'm > pretty sure he's serious, and > > >I never want to pass up paid help from a company > that knows something about > > >word processors. > > > > After some private email with Alan, here are a few > better ideas: > > > > 1. See if they're interested in working on Pango. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Having shipped a Korean word processor on Windows > (no longer supported from > > what I hear), Hancom is now moving into the Linux > world in a big way. > > Insofar as we have a strong interest in: > > > > - having Pango run well on non-Linux platforms, > and > > - having it do a great job of supporting CJK > languages, > > > > perhaps this is an area where they could apply > their existing expertise in > > ways that would help us, the GNOME project, and > themselves. I'm betting > > that Hancom engineers may not be free to > contribute to our GPL codebase, but > > Pango is LGPL, so that should still a licensable > option for them. > > > This is a good idea but I beleive they have already > decided on QT 3 which > provides this. I don't know how good QT 3 is > compared to pango though.
I was under the impression that QT 3 handled Unicode but not that it takes care of the funky glyph replacement, reordering, etc that Pango does... but I'm not 100% sure. Andrew. > > 2. See if they'd be willing to fund some > high-quality TTF fonts. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > As we all know, there just aren't enough > high-quality Unicode fonts > > available for use on Unix. Indeed, I suspect that > the situation is even > > worse for complex scripts like Korean. > > > > > This is a good idea but I think we're unlikely to > get much joy here. There > is no incentive for a font foundary to provide GPL > or LGPL'd fonts so my > guess is that unless they purchased the fonts > outright we would get much > joy. > > > I suspect that any fonts they already have use > other encodings, but > > depending on how they licensed those fonts in the > first place, perhaps > > they'd be willing to fund an effort to convert > them to Unicode and release > > them. (Or not. That might be a key part of the > value-add for their > > distro.) Still, that's right up Bart's alley. > > > > action > > ------ > > Would any of our i18n folks be interested in > pursuing either of these ideas > > with Bart? Alan's looking to bow out of that > conversation, and I'm way over > > my AbiWord time budget for the week. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
