Ilya,

It's too late to put it in right now - the release deadline if I'm not 
mistaken is around March (at least Sun will release it as "Star Office 
6.0")...

Hetz

On Friday 11 January 2002 17:57, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 13:47, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
> > CTL is just a nice acronym invented in the X/Open circles to designate
> > several languages with special presentation requirements.  As far as I
> > remember, it covers Arabic, Hebrew and Thai.  There is not much
> > similarity between the requirements of Thai and those of Arabic/Hebrew,
> > so Bidi support can be developed without Thai and vice-versa.  You can
> > call it a partial CTL support, or just Bidi support.  Merging the code
> > into OpenOffice will be no less or more difficult than merging any other
> > significant contribution.
>
> Did anyone in the OpenOffice circles consider using Pango for the text
> output? Not only it can provide pluggable Complex Text Layout engines,
> it already has many complex scripts supported, including Hebrew with
> Nikud (thanks to Dov). Plus, it's LGPL. And it doesn't require Gtk+,
> although it serves as the text layouting base for Gtk+ 2.0.
>
> Oh, and it supports AA on XFree86.
>
>
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