On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:49 am, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Isam, you seem to me to be describing input using the "Compose" key, > > a.k.a Multi_key, which LyX certainly does support. Eg with latin1 > > encoding Compose a ' -> �Compose u " -> > > Compose l = -> > > > > I'm no expert but assume that Arabic encoding can use this too. > > I am not 100% sure what you mean .. but what I exactly mean is: > the letter ALEF have a shape .. the letter LAM have a shape .. when you put > the letters LAM_ALEF in that sequance in a word, they will not have the > shape of LAM+ALEF , but instead they have another shape .. so there will be > one shape for 2 letters .. here is what I mean .. > I guess that Far east languages have this complex shaping, where more > than one keyboard key are used to compose one shape .. in Arabic we have it > as when two letters LAM and ALEF come after each other, they have another 1 > shape instead of 2 .. > > So this is not a keyboard issue, but rather a shaping issue ..
Ok, now I understand you too. As I understand it, LyX does not support this BUT CJK-LyX does. CJK-LyX is a patched version of LyX for Chinese, Japanese and Korean language users: http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html I think that the plan is to eventually merge the two codes (LyX and CJK-LyX) together but first LyX must use unicode internally. Regards, Angus
