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? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
