How do I add a language to this menu so that fonts that can will render text in the style appropriate to the language? I am reconciled to having to create a bespoke version of LibreOffice, though I'd rather not.
Manually editing a document's XML files would be the last resort - it seems to work! While it gets the language into the pick list, this is only while the selection includes text in that language. I haven't explored this method, though it does suggest a workable clumsy technique. An example is a Tai Lue style (language khb-CN). LibreOffice (more precisely, HarfBuzz) includes data to enable the conversion of 'khb' to OpenType tag 'XBD '. I'm styling Lanna script glyphs for language, and selecting Lao as the complex-script language gives me Lao-style glyphs from the font in LibreOffice. The only mechanism I can see that might work for Tai Lue is to request the installation of a scrappy dictionary for the language (perhaps even empty?) but this method feels wrong. My wish list for additions, assuming I only have to include language and country, is: khb-CN Tai Lue nod-TH Northern Thai kkh-MM Tai Khuen tts-TH North-Eastern Thai and, lower down the scale of desire, support for khb-LA Tai Lue of Laos and for various Palaung languages (relevant one unestablished), all OpenType code PLG: pce-MM – Ruching pll-MM – Shwe rbb-MM – Rumai If script matters, it gets more complicated. The above 8 are all for the Lanna script, but for generally useful dictionary support for some of the languages one should concentrate on: nod_Thai-TH tts_Thai-TH khb_Laoo-LA and I'm not sure which script for Palaung - probably Myanmar, but definitely not Lanna. A dictionary for pi_Lana (Pali) would be good to have - I'm not sure about the the relevance of national variations, though. I'm not sure how well a multiscript dictionary will work. A pi_Latn dictionary is reported to have been developed, but it's not available for download. Pali is on the pick list for Western scripts, but is not available for 'complex' scripts. The national variations in Pali generally go with script. (Of course, there are two very different, but apparently equivalent, orthographies for pi_Thai-TH.) Richard. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
