On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, atagak xplornet.ca <ata...@xplornet.ca> wrote: > Good afternoon everyone! > > My names is Andrew Tagak Jr., I'm an Inuk (Eskimo) from Nunavut, Canada, > living in a small city by the name of Iqaluit (Many Fish). >
Hello Andrew, I am Rob Weir, one of the volunteers on the Apache OpenOffice project. I'm in the US, in Massachusetts. I always wanted to visit Nunavut and see the northern lights. Welcome to the Dev mailing list. This is a public mailing list, so as a subscriber everything you send gets sent to other subscribers, and you also receive any note that someone else sends, like this note. > I have over the years developed small programs in Visual Basic. One of the > programs I have developed is a transliterator that instantly converts Roman > Orthography into Inuktitut Syllabics. > > I developed the program to ensure that the proper use of the orthography > converts seamlessly in syllabics without having to learn a mapped keyboard > to type, or to avoid downloading drivers to be installed on computers. > Cool. > My wish.... is to have such a program function in Open Office! That would > be a thrill to be able to say a tiny little program like the transliterator > can have a huge impact on all Inuktitut speaking and typing users across > the globe! It would maximize technology to it's fullest capacity :) > Yes, I could see how this would be very useful. > I'm also developing the same program for other Aboriginal languages (Cree, > Ojibwe, Cherokee and Dene) > Excellent. > Couple questions, > > 1 - would it be difficult to integrate VB into C? Or, convert vb language > into the Open Office language? > A few things to think about: a) Do you want the tool to work in all editors (Writer, Calc and Impress?) or just in the word processor? b) What about platforms? OpenOffice is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you want a solution that works on all the OpenOffice applications, and cross-platform, then that will probably lead you away from Visual Basic and toward either OpenOffice Basic or C/C++. > and 2 - If it is possible, any chance I can get any support or learning > tutors to help with the wish I have? > We have many volunteers who are far more knowledgeable about the extension mechanisms in OpenOffice. Hopefully that can give you some good ideas. Note: we have two other mailing lists, with less traffic, that are also relevant to your ideas. We have a localization mailing list, which you can subscribe by sending a note to: l10n-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org And we also have a list dedicated to writing OpenOffice extensions: api-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org > If you need some samples they are found on my site; > > http://www.tagak.net > > I have found an Add-on developed by Alex Beneson that transliterates other > languages, and I have contributed Inuktitut to that particular add-on he > developed; > Are there others who might be interested in enabling OpenOffice to work better with Aboriginal languages? We have an active localization effort for OpenOffice. So if you know anyone who would be interested in seeing the OpenOffice user interface translated into Inuktitut syllabics, and bundled with an Inuktitut spell checker, we can help you get started. Regards, -Rob > http://www.benya.com/transliterator/ > > I would like that everyone for any support! > > Take care > > Andrew Tagak Jr.
