Re: free range UNICODE / vertical rendering

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 12:27:19 EDT

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    On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Achim Gerber wrote:

    > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:19:12 +0200
    > From: Achim Gerber <info@i18n-support.com>
    > To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
    > Subject: free range UNICODE / vertical rendering
    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I am new here.

    Welcome.

    > I am searching for a word processor that is supporting the free range of
    > UNICODE. The inner mongolian script is writen vertical from left to right.
    > So far I didn't find any SW.
    >
    > Is Abiword supporting vertical script?

    No, not yet.

    Bidirectional script (left to right or right to left) is supported.

    More international language support is planned with work being done to add
    FreeType first and then Pango support being added to abiword (as part of
    the development of v1.2/v2.0). Pango supports vertical text.

    > How difficult is it to implement? I am a profesional c++ programmer.

    I dont know, hopefully one of the developers can provide more
    details for you, and clarify or correct what I have said.

    Your help is very welcome. It is great for abiword to have more people
    who understand non-Latin based langauges.

    Sincerely
    Alan Horkan



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