On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 13:47, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > 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.
Did anyone in the OpenOffice circles consider using Pango for the text output? Not only it can provide pluggable Complex Text Layout engines, it already has many complex scripts supported, including Hebrew with Nikud (thanks to Dov). Plus, it's LGPL. And it doesn't require Gtk+, although it serves as the text layouting base for Gtk+ 2.0. Oh, and it supports AA on XFree86. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
