Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-23 Thread Robert M Campbell
>> I'd like to do something similar for firefox, inkscape, >> openoffice, libreoffice, etc. The more I can do for them upfront, the >> better. > I don't know anything about Inkscape and I don't know how > Open/LibreOffice and Firefox deal with word splitting, but TeX > hyphenation patterns for syl

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Robert M Campbell wrote: > > I could work on providing the feedback needed. http://www.laobible.net/ > provides a decent source of text content to test against Perfect, thank you. > and I could > get a Lao person and/or language experts to check it. Also another

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > > Hi Khaled, Mojca, Robert, > > this patch is already included in the ICU SVN repository and will most > likely be part of the ICU-52.1 release candidate scheduled for the next > few days. > > I would very much dislike to go back to a pa

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Mojca Miklavec wrote: If this patch ... http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/34229 ... is all that is needed and if it applies cleanly on 51.1 (I didn't check), Peter or Khaled might be willing to apply it to TeX Live repository ... Hi Khaled, Mojca, Robert, t

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Robert M Campbell wrote: > Mojca, > > As for patching ICU, here is what they did for me: > http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/34229 > > It should be 'copy-and-paste' for many parts, but might be wise to have > someone more experienced in programming than mys

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:46:17PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > One thing I don't know is whether ICU only breaks between words or > also between syllables. (If it only breaks between words you would > still need hyphenation patterns. If it breaks between syllables as > well, you don't need anyth

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex in lao (another try)

2013-09-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Robert M Campbell wrote: > ICU's to be released version supports Lao as a result of Brian's and others' > help. The current dictionary is at > http://code.google.com/p/lao-dictionary/source/browse/. > > What needs to happen in order to get Xetex working with this?