Hi.
I'm interested in making LyX bidirectional text work in Unicode branch
work, and I think with some help from you, LyX guys, I can do it.
I will try to use libfribidi, but Is there any document that describes
what's happening in Unicode branch?
And, a question, which level(version) of Unicode standard will be
supported in LyX? It seems that v5.0 has released, and there are
significant changes between releases, and for now, many applications
are using Unicode 3.0 and moving to Unicode 4.0 or 4.1 standard.
Also, I can get help from one of my friends that is the maintainer of
libfribidi and Pango, Behdad Esfahbod, as he's an expert in this area.
BTW, there are many document about bidirectional text. These are some
useful ones:
-nice article that explains bidirectional text:
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bidirectional-text.html
-Unicode Standard for Bidirectional Algorithm:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/
There's also a wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiDi
And at last, as most of right-to-left languages are from middle east,
looking at Unicode standard on Middle East languages should be
usefull:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf
Thanks.
On 15 Jul 2006 14:50:35 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Hossein Noorikhah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Hi.
| I'm using Lars Gullik Bjønnes's Unicode branch of LyX 1.5, and I'm
| interested in writing Arabic/Persian documents with it. I want to know
| the status of this branch, and also how can I find more information
| about it.
Highly experimental and in a flux.
| To me, It seems that the original bidirectional algorithm that is used
| for the old Arabic/Hebrew patches doesn't work here.
Very correct.
Quite a bit of work needed in that department.
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Lgb
