Stephen Reindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Hello everybody...
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| Has anybody thought about implementing Unicode support into LyX?
Yes, this is on the agenda.
| I'm currently plan to support an extended set of math symbols and characters
| into LyX (for myself or others if it is needed).
Ok. You should talk to André Pönitz, he is currently rewritint the
low-level mathed code.
| Here are my thoughts to be discussed:
|
| I'm thinking of a re-implementation of the font engine to support more than
| the standard font encodings and to support more languages and
| symbols. At the
| moment I'm looking at the pango code if it can be used as the new
| font engine
| for LyX. This will make the code depending on glib of course which is not
| available for OS/2 at the moment, I think.
|
| The LyX file format has to be changed to support more than the current
| character set. This could be implemented by using a new command (e.g.
| "\LyXUNICODE{code}").
The plan (Plan?) is to make the LyX fileformat UTF-8, and also more
xml-like.
| The internal typedef LyXParagraph::value_type has to be changed to 16 bit
| type (wchar_t) and the TeX- and SGML-exporters and -importers have to be
| changed to support more characters.
This is planned, except that wchar_t is 32 bit on most os's.
| Anyone satisfied with this ideas :-)
It needs to be discussed, and also we need to clean up the current
development / changes first.
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Lgb
