This will have to be handled in the frontends, and thus for every platform separately. Some people extended QT/KDE to be able to draw vertically: http://dot.kde.org/1130546299/. I don't know if this has already been integrated into QT4.
mg Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006 16:00 schrieb DM Smith: > I took a look at IE's write-mode: tb-rl and it rotates the characters as > well as the text. Probably not what is wanted. > CSS3 specifies this ability but IE does not handle it (don't know about > IE7) and I didn't check FireFox 1.5 or Opera. > > When the major browsers support CSS3 then perhaps > www.crosswire.org/study can be changed to use it. > > Joachim Ansorg wrote: > > Hi. > > > >> A friend of mine is just finishing the translation of the NT into > >> traditional Mongolian. He works together with the UBS and the local > >> curch here in cina. Now my question: how can I get the document ready > >> for the sword project? Is there already a Chinese program version? if > >> not what do I have to do to translate the version. > > > > At http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/swordmodule/ is some > > information how to prepare a module. > > I think a chinese translation of the windows software is available. > > For Linux it's not difficult to prepare a new translation if there are > > volunteers to do the actual translation. > > > >> One more technical question: Mongolian is written vertical with the > >> first column left towards right. I am a developer myself. is there a way > >> to enable the sword sw to write vertical? > > > > Hm, I don't think this is possible atm. > > Afaik Internet Explorer has some hacks to display mongolian, but this is > > not available in the windows software. > > SIL/Wycliffe has some work going to enable applications to render more > > languages, the project is called Graphite. But I'm not sure about the > > current status. > > > > Joachim > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
