Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 24 Apr 2011, at 1:17 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > Thanks, Edward, > > On 24/04/2011 07:05, Edward Mendelson wrote: >> 1. Quite a few WP characters have no unicode equivalents, and there is no >> way to fix that. > > Yeah, as they say in Swahili: "Maisha ndyvio, alivio" or as we say here > i

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Thanks, Edward, On 24/04/2011 07:05, Edward Mendelson wrote: > 1. Quite a few WP characters have no unicode equivalents, and there is no way > to fix that. Yeah, as they say in Swahili: "Maisha ndyvio, alivio" or as we say here in the socialist Europe, "C'est la vie" :) Indeed, we cannot do muc

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 23 Apr 2011, at 4:19 PM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > Edward, > > > On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 11:13 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: >> Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x >> for DOS is here: >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/CHARACT6.DOC >> It includes all 14 set

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, Edward, On 23/04/2011 23:01, Edward Mendelson wrote: > I've run both files through wpd2text - and the results did not seem useful at > all (see the linked file). However, if you want me to run them through > wpd2odt, then the results were very useful indeed. I'll check them later. > See t

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 4/23/2011 2:18 AM, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > > Just pretend I never said that paragraph you replied to; I wasn't > completely awake when I wrote that and I had forgotten the key bit of > the problem: non-Mac WP required you to enter characters > backwards/LTR to begin with (I was thinking for so

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 23 Apr 2011, at 4:42 PM, Edward Mendelson wrote: > > On 4/23/2011 4:19 PM, Fridrich Strba wrote: >> Edward, >> >> >> On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 11:13 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: >>> Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x >>> for DOS is here: >>> http://dl.dr

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 4/23/2011 4:19 PM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > Edward, > > > On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 11:13 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: >> Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x >> for DOS is here: >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/CHARACT6.DOC >> It includes all 14 sets. > > Th

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward, On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 11:13 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x for > DOS is here: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/CHARACT6.DOC > It includes all 14 sets. Thanks for this one. I run it over wpd2text and it might be

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
Fridrich, On 23 Apr 2011, at 10:38 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Smokey > > I wrote a quick generator and generated a wp document with all charsets > from 1 to 14. Would be nice to open it in a mac that is on a system > where all the WorldScript

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 23 Apr 2011, at 10:38 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Smokey > > I wrote a quick generator and generated a wp document with all charsets > from 1 to 14. Would be nice to open it in a mac that is on a system > where all the WorldScript goodies ar

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Edward Mendelson
On 23 Apr 2011, at 2:18 AM, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > At 11:23 PM +0200 on 4/21/11, Fridrich Strba wrote: > >> On 21/04/11 21:52, Smokey Ardisson wrote: >>> Do we have reason to believe that the mapping in WP5 is different from >>> the ones I contributed for WP6? >> >> Yes, we have a strong reas

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Smokey I wrote a quick generator and generated a wp document with all charsets from 1 to 14. Would be nice to open it in a mac that is on a system where all the WorldScript goodies are installed, so that we can see how the missing mac characters will

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/04/11 08:18, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > I can't believe that a company would move around blocks of characters > from one version of the software to the next, especially when those > characters' codes are the canonical ways of identifying them :