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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Right to Left Issues
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-03-30 23:13:30
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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 
  
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