Hi, Dejung Gewissler schrieb:
> Hi! > > I am very excited with the prospect of being able to fully replace my MS > Office dependency with an evolving relationship with OpenOffice.org. > However, I have one small requirement that limits me from switching > right now. > > I work a lot with Tibetan Unicode. Normally I create or edit texts in MS > Word. Word 2003 has support for the complex font stacking (kind of like > Japanese) that is prevalent in Tibetan. > > As of now there are several workarounds to get OOo to pretty much work > with Tibetan Unicode. None of them work without flaw though. I and a > friend of mine are interested and willing to help in implementing > Tibetan Unicode properly in OOo. I am pretty sure that this will not be > too involved, as he has already worked through this process once with > Microsoft in correcting their implementation of Tibetan Unicode in Word > 2007. > > Please put me in touch with a project manager / developer that is > affiliated with the text formating functionality of OOo. I am not > concerned with the internationalization of the GUI, but am concerned > about how OOo draws the stacked fonts, breaks the line wrapping in the > correct places (not in the middle of words) and places the cursor > correctly on the screen in relationship to where it will insert text. I'm not sure whether you matter of interest touches the font rendering or the text layouting algorithms. Obviously none of the developers working in these areas has seen your mail. I will draw their attention to it. Thank you for your offering and sorry for the late answer. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
