Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-10 Thread shigeru_miyata
An addition to my previous post: In encoding.C, LyX performs ligature substitution for Arabic script. However, the mechanism relies on the fact that Arabic ligatures are mostly independent of the fonts used and given Unicode codepoints. Since the above does not apply to Indic scripts, I don't th

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-10 Thread shigeru_miyata
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As for the complex input methods, the answer is > probably going to be a resounding yes. Bengali has 65 > basic characters and 100+ conjunct consonants. Does > cjk-lyx and X have support for producing one single > character by typing several? It is definitely

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Thanks again, I'm going to start working with the author of the bangtex package to create a good set of postscript type 1 fonts at the moment. As for the complex input methods, the answer is probably going to be a resounding yes. Bengali has 65 basic characters and 100+ conjunct consonants. Do

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ananda" == Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ananda> Thanks for your replies, Dekel and Jean-Marc, to answer your Ananda> questions, the language I hope to add support to LyX for is Ananda> Bengali. Spoken in Eastern India and Bangladesh. I want to be Ananda> able to create Benga

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-01 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Thanks for your replies, Dekel and Jean-Marc, to answer your questions, the language I hope to add support to LyX for is Bengali. Spoken in Eastern India and Bangladesh. I want to be able to create Bengali documents in LyX rather than localise the menus and messages. This I will do later if

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-01 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:54:32AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Ananda" == Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ananda> Hi Everybody, I checked the LyX development web site, but the > Ananda> link to the LyX developer's guide appears to be broken. Does > Ananda> anyone h

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-03-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ananda" == Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ananda> Hi Everybody, I checked the LyX development web site, but the Ananda> link to the LyX developer's guide appears to be broken. Does Ananda> anyone have a copy of it? Preferably in LyX format. OK two Ananda> more questions. Can L

Re: Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:50:25AM +, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I checked the LyX development web site, but the link to the LyX developer's > guide appears to be broken. Does anyone have a copy of it? Preferably in I don't know where it went, at all. No-one ever seems to answer this parti

Need help on getting started with LyX development

2002-02-27 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hi Everybody, I checked the LyX development web site, but the link to the LyX developer's guide appears to be broken. Does anyone have a copy of it? Preferably in LyX format. OK two more questions. Can LyX display Postscript pfb font files, i.e. use them as screen fonts? And secondly how