Am 31.03.2014 23:26, schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
Am 31.03.2014 21:46, schrieb Georg Baum:
IMHO we should not add any new language without a test by a native speaker.
My experience is that it works the opposite way: people see that LyX supports
their language and
give it a try. It is only a dream that someone comes to us and say, please
implement e.g. Xhosa and
I will test and compile it.
I should have also said that personally I would not use a program that does not support my language.
I mean how should I use LyX when I cannot write German with it: no German hyphenation, no
spell-checker, English terms like "Figure", etc.
I therefore strongly disagree that when nobody shouts nobody needs this for LyX. Take for example
Serbian (complex language because of its dualism of Cyrillic and Latin script). I took a while until
I could provide full language support for Serbian on LyX from Windows but now I count 2 - 3
downloads per week of Serbian dictionaries via LyX. I also got some feedback that it works and that
people started to use LyX at Universities. That is a success that would not have been possible if we
would have not release support for Serbian despite it was not bug-free at the beginning.
In Pakistan and the other regions where Urdu is used most people have other problems than to develop
software. However, when some Pakistani students see that LyX offers now some basic support
(spell-checker and hyphenation), we perhaps have the chance to attract people to sort out the font
issues that are apparently in LyX.
For the non RTL languages I think LyX works properly. I got feedback from former students of mine
regarding Hindi and Tamil at the time I added support for it. But clear, they will also first test
it thoroughly with real-life documents when LyX 2.1 is out. Nevertheless the Tamil guy already writ
his bachelor thesis using LyX in English. If he forwards the info to his colleagues that LyX has now
support for Tamil, we can reach more persons. (I know I am sometimes too enthusiastic ;-) )
best regards
Uwe
