> From: Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com> > To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > Subject: [scribus] Stalking the wild 'RTL language support' in Scribus > Message-ID: > <CAAt0FRiNwNvfRnVELnY7QMiv3FBi8xWouqc_T2jsTexmBusrUA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Every so often - sometimes as a rumor, sometimes as a 'BTW', sometime as a > patch - the issue of RTL support comes up on the ML or forums. To me these > are hopeful moments because this shows the necessity for the existence of > this, I'm told, feature. Yet it is obviously a complicated matter to > implement. > > The hope is that the challenges will be overcome. My limited comprehension > on this subject does grasp though that this RTL patch needs to > simultaneously respect and be built side by side with a ongoing current > Scribus infrastructure code change. This added complexity makes for more > time delays and possible diminishing enthusiasm. > > So I'm just wanting to say, whoever is working on RTL, please keep the > Scribus community updated. Make yourselves be known and post what your > challenges and milestones are. It's important. > > Thanks for everyone involved in this.
Hi Kunda, I guess that would be me on the Scribus team. I'm currently sidetracked with refactoring the PDF code. After that I'll return to RTL + nonlatin scripts. As soon as I have the necessary infrastructure changes in place, I'll create a project on Github and ask for people to join the effort. /Andreas
