On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:00:02AM +1100, George W Gerrity wrote:
> For those of you not familiar with Mac OS, a keyboard layout and 
> input method are coupled to a language (group) AND a font system. 

Seems limiting. A QWERTY keyboard does Swahilli just fine, and a
keyboard with the appropriate keys could easily handle a number of
languages at once.

> My interest (and my interest in monitoring this e-mail group) lies in 
> the possibility of getting involved in an open WYSIWYG document 
> editor based on XML and UTF-8, so I (and others) can get out of the 
> thrall of Word. To be successful, such an application will HAVE to be 
> a) WYSIWYG; b) multi platform; c) able to read and dump rtf format, 
> even if the result is crippled; d) be modular and open (source and 
> APIs), both to spread the development effort and to encourage its use.

Have you considered looking at existing systems? What about KWord? Why
does it have to XML-based?

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