* Miyata Shigeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010206 11:43]:
> Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > pardon me for asking, but I can't help noticing that almost every letter is
> > mapped to "t". That's a pretty strange keymap! How does the thai alphabet
> > work?
>
> ???
> Anyway, if you want ot get a headache, try
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch09.pdf
>
> I guess if we are going to support Indic and Southeast Asian scripts in
> LyX, then we have to look for the LayoutEngine class of ICU-1.7
>
> The typesetting algorithm required for these scripts are not as easy as
> bidirectional alogorithm!
There is also Pango at http://www.pango.org/
Which is supposed to handle various languages including bidirectional
and the various strange languages around.
It's task is ordering and shaping of characters, it is build into GTK 2,
but it is written in a way that is supposedly independent of GTK itself,
maybe LyX should adapt it to its own use.
--
Baruch Even
http://baruch.ev-en.org/
