Gregg Reynolds wrote: >> Benoit Maisonny wrote: >> My proposal for interested users to participate in funding this >> development is still open: >> http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/2008-September/006918.html >> >> Hussein Shafie wrote: >> Unless we find a funding for this feature, we do not plan to support >> right-to-left languages >> > > This comes up every now and then. I think a key issue for garnering > community funding is whether or not the results are open sourced or > not. We had this discussion a few years ago but I don't recall > whether this is possible. I asked a similar question of another > software vendor (Heartsome translation tools). I don't recall if it > was them or you, but the problem with RTL support was in an open > source library used by the product. If that is the case here, and the > result of funding would be RTL enablement of an open source Java > library, I would throw in a few bucks and I suspect so would a lot of > other people. >
Good idea. We have no legal, technical or business problem open-sourcing an add-on. For example, the JEuclid (http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/), the MathML renderer add-on originally written by Max Berger and now maintained by XMLmind, is open source. However we don't see how a core feature like the support of right-to-left languages in XMLmind XML Editor could be packaged as an add-on.
