hi joe > On 12/18/2012 02:19 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: > > Unfortunately, its just code that has not been written yet. Scribus > > just doesn't support what you want to do. There's requests already > > in at bugs.scribus.net. > > Clearly Scribus already has the code needed to do the reversing. > What's needed now is some sort of flag to tell it that you don't want > that done, plus a test to check for it. Superficially, at least, it > looks simple. Of course, the devil is in the details as well I know > from years ago when I was coding and there's also the question of > priority. I can well understand that there are more important things > needing work.
in addition to what craig stated "above" here some further thoughts on the support of non-latin languages in scribus. first the good news: there has been lot of work already done to get support for non latin languages into scribus. but this work is orphaned. there is "lot" of half finished code that has to be completed and committed to the development version of scribus. as you may have read on this list a few month ago, anil has been working hard in getting the support for indic languages into scribus. the code he has produced does work and is used in production in newspaper written in the malayalam and telugu languages. (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2012-August/047258.html) we are now sorting out, how his work can be consolidated into the official version. the same happened with japanese: a user with strong interest in getting support for his language proposed a set of patches to get better support for his language. they have been accepted (after some requests for cleanups... :-) since the people who are most active in the scribus community are only proficient in latin (and cyrillic) languages, it's not that easy to get the improvements needed for the support of languages they don't know much of. what we need is somebody with good programming skills and a strong interest in getting hebrew supported by scribus! the effort needed is not small! you have to count a couple of months full time work (obviously, it depends on the skills of programmer! and he/she does not have to work full time: he/she can spread his effort on a longer period). in the case of the support of the two indic languages mentioned above, the code has been done with the financial support of a local grassroots association. i wonder if you or any other reader of this list is in touch with a similar organization interested in taking in their hands the support of hebrew in scribus... have a nice day a.l.e
