Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-12-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: >> There is some faulty shaping, and there is some special cases for >> letters that should be considered when doing the shaping for >> Arabic.. I had been working in a sma

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-29 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > There is some faulty shaping, and there is some special cases for letters > that should be considered when doing the shaping for Arabic.. I had been > working in a small patch to fix this issue.. the patch does the following: > - f

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-24 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:41:34PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > I will work in the upcoming weeks on fixing other issues related to Arabic in > LyX shaping.. I will be sending them to you to check and apply .. or maybe > even better use the bugzilla system for LyX .. that way no patches would b

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-24 Thread Isam Bayazidi
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 19:08, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:49:56PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > > BTW Dekel Tsur: Did you accept the patch ? is it OK ? will it be added to > > the CVS TREE ? > > The patch looks OK. I'll apply it shortly. Thank you very much Dekel for appl

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-21 Thread Isam Bayazidi
Hi Helge, It seems that ligatures really describe what I need .. Now is there some ready made functions in LyX for those replacements ? are they used in LyX in the first place ? Do I have to create the replacement functions ? or use some existing ones ? Thank you Helge for helping me with t

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:49:56PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > > BTW Dekel Tsur: Did you accept the patch ? is it OK ? will it be added to the > CVS TREE ? The patch looks OK. I'll apply it shortly.

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-20 Thread Angus Leeming
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 ' -> �Compos

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-20 Thread Isam Bayazidi
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 en

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-20 Thread Angus Leeming
On Sunday 17 November 2002 11:28 pm, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > There is still one issue in LyX shaping that this patch does not address .. > that is the Complex Letters .. there are some glyphs in Arabic that are a > combination of 2 letters ( one glyph for 2 letters) .. it highly increase > readabili

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-17 Thread Isam Bayazidi
Upon your request, I had provided the patch against the CVS HEAD .. I did it against the lyx-devel module in the CVS.. it seemed the most active one .. please tell me if there is any probelms with it .. I would be reallt happy to see the shaping in LyX working fine for Arabic There is still one

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-17 Thread Isam Bayazidi
On Monday 18 November 2002 00:18, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > > I really hope that the developers check this patch, no other code that is > > not Arabic related had been touched. We would be glad to have this > > patched enrolled to the main

Re: Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > I really hope that the developers check this patch, no other code that is not > Arabic related had been touched. We would be glad to have this patched > enrolled to the main LyX tree > > It was made across 1.2.1 .. I can make it ac

Arabic Shaping Patch

2002-11-16 Thread Isam Bayazidi
Hi all I am Isam Bayazidi, from Arabeyes team ( www.arabeyes.org ). We work on Arabic language support issues in Open Source Programs and Systems. We had our eye on LyX Arabic support for some time, we are glad that LyX supports Arabic, nevertheless, the faulty Arabic shaping had been a disple