Andreas, Hi, we are also ready to give as much support as needed for Khmer script. We have a pretty complete word list that could be used for line-breaking. For the moment we insert ZWSP in all our texts.
Javier Sol? Khmer Software Initiative. Anousak Souphavanh wrote > Andreas, > > Many thanks for your kind reply and shed some light on this. I have > downloaded Scribus and test to see if it works for Lao and thruthly it > doesn't support OpenType Lao font. > > Looking this thread http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5937 , seeing > that Bountonw has ut some issue out already. Boutonw and I agreed to > work on linebreaking and spellcheck for Lao. A friend worked with > LibThai and he has modified certain attributes to allow Lao support. > > Since I already worked on many issues relating to Lao support with > other FOSS, I like to work with core developers for Lao linebreaking, > but also spacing, use of hyphenation characters vs. zerowidth spaces, > other special typographic conventions). I strongly believe the outcome > from this project can be aplied to other projects as well, ie. Opffice > being worked, GNOME, and Mozilla. > > Many thanks for your kind help and look forward to working with you. > > Cheers, > Anousak > > On 6/28/07, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > >> >> Anousak Souphavanh-2 wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am Anousak Souphavanh, a Lao OPen Source software developer and >>> would to work on Scribus for Lao language. Please accept my sincerity >>> to join the team as I alrerad a lead for other OpenSource projects, >>> ie. Gnome, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, and others. >>> >>> >> Thanks for your kind offer! >> >> As I see it there are two distinct functionalities which are needed for Lao >> (and >> Thai and Khmer): >> >> * Hyphenation >> * OpenType font support >> >> For the first I'd like to integrate libthai in Scribus 1.3.6. Are there any >> plans >> to extend that library to Lao and Khmer? >> I also had a look at the sourcecode and it seem as if libthai recodes all >> text >> to tis-620-0 internally. It would be nicer if it worked on unicode directly >> (UTF-16 or UTF-8). >> >> Opentype support is also planned for 1.3.6. We will probably re-use the Qt4 >> shapers via the Harfbuzz library. Once we get the basic machinery working, >> we would need native language speakers to test and debug it. >> >> Since the core developers don't know any of those languages, we are also >> interested in exact specifications of what is expected from a page layout >> applicatipn in these languages (not only linebreaking, but also spacing, use >> of hyphenation characters vs. zerowidth spaces, other special typographic >> conventions). >> >> Please have a look at the discussions at >> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5937 >> if you haven't done so already. >> >> Cheers >> /Andreas >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Please-add-Lao-team-tf3993045.html#a11340695 >> Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Scribus mailing list >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> > > >
