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In MS Word, you have various options for inserting kashida. When you select Right/Left/Center/Justified alignment, no kashida is placed. But when you select Justify Low/Medium/High, it inserts Low/Medium/High length kashida in the text. I think looking at paragraph alignment is a good way to manage kashida placement. But I don't exactly understand the problem. There was some problem with kashida placement in OpenOffice before, which caused defect output. But it is fixed now <http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60594>. Do you want to know "where kashida is allowed" or "where to put kashida to make the text look nice"? Happy Nowrouz Hossein On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Sophie Gautier <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > May be some of you will be able to help here? > Kind regards > Sophie > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Libreoffice] fixing kashida insertion > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:32:59 +0700 > From: Martin Hosken <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Dear Arabic experts, > > The current kashida insertion implementation in libo is, to put it mildly, > a disaster. As I see it there are a few options open to us: > > 1. Get it right. This is really hard and beyond my capabilities in the time > I have available for this. But if someone wants to work out the preferred > location for each word and then insert there, then go for it. > > 2. Implement dumb kashida placement that says: you can insert a kashida at > any joining of two characters. This should be doable (famous last words) > based on Unicode properties. > > 3. Don't do kashida insertion at all. This is probably better than the bad > insertion we currently have. > > I'm willing to have a go at 2 or 3. An alternative would be to add a switch > in say Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids/Options or Options/Language > Settings/Complex Text Layout to enable/disable kashida insertion. Such UI > stuff is beyond me at the moment. > > I'm also not an arabic expert or really have any feelings on the matter. > > What would the arabic dev community suggest? > > Yours, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
