Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:50:29PM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: As you know, I'm currently looking into adding support for fixed spaces. This had some effects on the handling of letter- and word-spacing. I've got word-spacing together with fixed spaces working in the meantime but I'm tracking

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Yep, that's exactly what I need. But hey, adding a 3MB library just for this method, that is a little much. Hmm. fop.jar is only 1.7MB. :-) But ICU4J looks interesting. On 28.02.2006 20:39:16 Simon Pepping wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:50:29PM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: As you know, I'm

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Yep, that's exactly what I need. But hey, adding a 3MB library just for this method, that is a little much. If all else fails, do the same as for the line breaking properties. J.Pietschmann

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:56:22PM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Yep, that's exactly what I need. But hey, adding a 3MB library just for this method, that is a little much. Hmm. fop.jar is only 1.7MB. :-) But ICU4J looks interesting. It aims to be _the_ Java access library to Unicode. As FOP

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Simon Pepping wrote: It aims to be _the_ Java access library to Unicode. As FOP becomes more Unicode aware, can we do without it? Perhaps it also has anything on UAX#14, line breaking? It has the tables, but not the algorithm. Java has already the BreakIterator as algorithm implementation,

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 28.02.2006 22:16:05 J.Pietschmann wrote: Simon Pepping wrote: It aims to be _the_ Java access library to Unicode. As FOP becomes more Unicode aware, can we do without it? Perhaps it also has anything on UAX#14, line breaking? It has the tables, but not the algorithm. Did you see

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 28.02.2006 21:48:27 J.Pietschmann wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Yep, that's exactly what I need. But hey, adding a 3MB library just for this method, that is a little much. If all else fails, do the same as for the line breaking properties. Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean.

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 28.02.2006 21:48:27 J.Pietschmann wrote: If all else fails, do the same as for the line breaking properties. Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Generate the necessary data tables directly from the Unicode source, automatically or manually. Yes, NIH

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Did you see that there's a BreakIterator in ICU4J? Ooops, missed that. Thank you for the correction. If you guys tell me that it would be worthwhile to take this library (or parts of it) aboard, I'm fine with it. Well, for line breaking I don't see an advantage over

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki
:-) Thanks. On 01.03.2006 00:02:59 J.Pietschmann wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 28.02.2006 21:48:27 J.Pietschmann wrote: If all else fails, do the same as for the line breaking properties. Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Generate the necessary data tables directly from

Re: Unicode Alphabetic characters

2006-02-28 Thread Manuel Mall
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 06:37, Jeremias Maerki wrote: snip/ Does anyone of you plan to work on the UAX#14 stuff? I would love to. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=113074361626846w=2 where I documented the work I did with Joerg's code. Same as Joerg I would prefer a poll