Re: From AbiWord-user on 2.6.x in Hindi.

Hi,

> Dinbandhu <dinbandhu@sprynet.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I use Abiword in Linux-- specifically, Abiword 2.6.3 in Ubuntu 8.04, and
> Abiword 2.6.2 in Puppy 3.01. I do a lot of typing in Hindi using SCIM
> m17n. Until now I've done all my typing in OOo Writer, but am trying to
> switch over to Abiword for reasons of speed.
>
> Abiword 4.x was impossible to use with Hindi fonts in SCIM m17n because
> all the font rendering was incorrect. Also, the word wrap feature did
> not work in Hindi. Abiword would leave half a word at the end of one
> line and just continue the last half of the word on the next line.
>
> When the new version of Abiword came out (2.6.x), I was excited to try
> it because I heard that many advancements were made in the area of
> different languages and their fonts.
>
> I have found that there are indeed improvements for SCIM m17n Hindi
> users: 1) the word wrap feature now works, so words are no longer cut in
> half from one line to the next.
> 2) When written in isolation at the very beginning of a text file
> or at the beginning of a line even, all the rendering is correct.
>
> However the following problem remains in 2.6.2 (Puppy 3.01) and 2.6.3
> (Ubuntu 8.04):
>
> Following any mark of punctuation such as ,.!"';: the font rendering is
> all wrong just as it was in 2.4.x. Also following any word written in
> English, the same wrong font rendering happens. In 2.6.2 in Puppy, I
> only recall the problem being as far as this. In 2.6.3 in Ubuntu, it is
> even worse because in any given line of text, even if the first word is
> in Hindi itself, the second Hindi word's font rendering will be wrong.
>
> Do to this above described issue, SCIM m17n Hindi is still unusable in
> Abiword.
>
> Have the above issues with 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 been raised?
> Has any solution been sought yet?
>
> Thank you,
> Swarup

Could you please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.abisource.com) with
a sample abiword document and screen shots showing what the result is
and what it should be ?

Thanks,

Tomas
Received on Tue May 27 11:17:39 2008