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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 30 09:03:33 +0000 2008 ------- Hi everyone, I agree with most of what was said here, I'd just like to add my two cents: The automatic niqqud placement heuristics may never be good enough for a beautiful rendition of the bible or poetry (although I never quite understood why this has to be the case - nice niqqud placement isn't more an art than nice line breaking is). But is quite sufficient for what 90% of the users need niqqud for - for disambiguating one or two words in a long text. You know, adding one chirik here, one kamatz there, and so on, to make ambiguous-looking words a bit clearer. For this use (which again, I believe is the most common use for in niqqud for OpenOffice users), it is useful to allow the user to use whatever font he chose (which has niqqud, of course), rather than tell him: "you want to add one chiriq? then switch to the Ezra Sil (or whatever) font". And you want the resulting output to look "acceptable", not more and not less. Wouldn't it make sense to do what Dov suggested in a comment here in 2005, which is to copy his existing vowel placement heuristic? It (possibly) won't be perfect, but should be better than the existing situation. The fact that you consider this problem low priority doesn't mean it has been "FIXED" (which is how this bug is marked now). By the way, pueyo's first comment (from May 6 2003) makes me wonder. How could it be that the same fonts (the MS Windows fonts like Times New Roman) place vowels correctly in Windows, but not in Linux? If these fonts have the correct "OpenType" niqqud placement, doesn't it help in Linux? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
