From koffice Tue Mar 30 23:13:30 1999 From: Reginald Stadlbauer Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:13:30 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Right to Left Issues X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=92516389028053 On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jost Schenck wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Omer Kotlicki wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I would like to know whether you are taking into account the middle-eastern > > population when writing this magnificent project? > >It would be great if your product would support Right to Left writing so that > >it > > would allow to spread this product to a population of over a billion people > > that up till now had to use microsoft because they were the only serious > > candidate to offer this relatively not sophisticated feature. > > > > Unfortunately this is not supported up to now :( The right place to implement > this first would be in Qt. There are plans by some programmers (not by > TrollTech) to work on this, but I don't know how advanced these plans are. > The KOffice team has very much to do right now, so unless someone volunteers, > chances are small. > Sorry. > > BTW, Reggie: On a second thought I remember you saying this might be > implemented in KWord independently of Qt, and Stephan answering that it > wouldn't make sense without Qt offering it, too. > I don't think that's right: many people writing right-to-left probably > wouldn't > mind to use KDE with e.g. english menu entries etc (and therefore > left-to-right writing) but have to write Text in their language - so an > english > KWord that offers right-to-left writing *would* make sense. > I agree, you've got definitely enough to do :) Anyway, this might be some > volunteer's job. The problem is that for implementing this you need a quite good knowledge of the KWord kernel (formatting stuff), and that's really a quite complicated stuff. So I'm not sure if there are many people who want to do that. But as I have no plans for the next weekend, it looks like a good job for next weekend :-)) Ciao, Reggie -- ************************************* Reginald Stadlbauer Pfarrweg 8c, A-8010 Graz, Austria (Europe) E-Mail: reggie@kde.org Homepage: http://htualpha.tu-graz.ac.at/reggie Telematik Student an der TU-Graz EDV-Sachbearbeiter an der HTU-Graz KDE fan and developer :-)