Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-24 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have the *smallest* doubts let me know and I will leave that out > and it will be fixed with TL2008, but in case you think the attached > patch is clean I will include it in XeTeX. Hi Norbert, As the discu

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-22 Thread Harshula
Hi Jonathan & Norbet, On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:46 +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote: > XeTeX uses a version of ICU with some API extensions (to implement > features that ICU itself does not yet offer), so it has to use a > private build of the library. > > Obviously, I hope that eventually ICU will

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 21 Apr 2008, at 4:51 pm, Harshula wrote: Norbert & Jonathan, 1) Is there a reason to continue statically linking ICU instead of dynamically linking to libicu (3.8.1) which is maintained by Jay (CC'd)? Open Office used to statically link ICU but now dynamically links to libicu. XeTeX use

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Harshula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there a reason to continue statically linking ICU instead of > dynamically linking to libicu (3.8.1) which is maintained by Jay (CC'd)? AFAIK, the answer is no. Here is an extract from the SVN version of configure:

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Harshula
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:25 +0530, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > Adding Harshula to the CC list. Anuradha, I wish you would have asked me to review your port of my ICU patches before you sent it to the BTS! I could have shown you what was wrong with the patches you submitted. Norbert & Jonathan,

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 21 Apr 2008, at 11:55 am, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you have the *smallest* doubts let me know... Adding Harshula to the CC list. If you are looking for doubtful areas in the patch, check the following.

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Anuradha Ratnaweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - It doesn't add complete / usable Sinhala - but my tests showed the contrary My blog post on the topic, in case you want to know what I did in slightly more detail: http://anuradha.sayura.net/2008/04/latex-and-s

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Jonathan Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because of that ICU ticket, I believe that even the current XeTeX trunk, > using ICU 3.8.1, may still have some problems with Sinhala. I considered > applying the patch from that report, but prefer to wait until it has bee

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-21 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have the *smallest* doubts let me know... Adding Harshula to the CC list. If you are looking for doubtful areas in the patch, check the following. The rest of the patch is *adding* Sinhala related variables

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-20 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 20 Apr 2008, at 6:38 pm, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear Jonathan, I know your time is rather limited, and I want to excuse myself for asking again something from you ... we got a bug report asking for Sinhala language support in XeTeX, together with a patch. Please don't apologise - it's a l

Bug#476957: (fwd) Bug#476957: texlive-xetex: Sinhala language support

2008-04-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Jonathan, I know your time is rather limited, and I want to excuse myself for asking again something from you ... we got a bug report asking for Sinhala language support in XeTeX, together with a patch. Could you give the patch (attached) a short glance and tell me what you think? Ok for inc