Tzafrir Cohen wrote (referring to Bidi support in the word processor of
Open Office):
>I see there that bidi support is part of a greater thing called CTL
>(Complext Text Layout , support for any language that is more complecated
>than ascii ;-)), and according to that post it will take some time for
the
>whole CTL code to be merged into OpenOffice.
CTL is just a nice acronym invented in the X/Open circles to designate
several languages with special presentation requirements. As far as I
remember, it covers Arabic, Hebrew and Thai. There is not much similarity
between the requirements of Thai and those of Arabic/Hebrew, so Bidi
support can be developed without Thai and vice-versa. You can call it a
partial CTL support, or just Bidi support. Merging the code into
OpenOffice will be no less or more difficult than merging any other
significant contribution.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile:
+972 52 554160
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