Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/04

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Subject: [Leica] Fair enough
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Fri Mar 4 05:01:29 2005
References: <200503040613.AA3198353576@cshore.com> <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0503041236360.3251@hedvig.uio.no> <4dccee3d0503040444115bd20b@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0503041351490.11428@hedvig.uio.no>
 
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:56:53 +0100 (MET), Daniel Ridings
<daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, David Mason wrote:

> Don't know about that. I'm closely associated with people writing Arabic
> and they've gone the non-Word route. It can get pretty messy when these
> little companies don't really keep up, and they're not using PC:s
> (anymore).


Its not about companies. Libraries like the Pango library make this
possible and its open source. No company, you get the source code.
There are already a few different word processors/editors that use the
pango library. Arabic script mixes flawlessly with Western script and
does so beautifully on screen and paper.

I sat beside the guy who wrote this for many years so I became quite
familiar with it: http://www.pango.org/


Dave
In reply to: Message from dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr) ([Leica] Fair enough)
Message from daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Fair enough)
Message from masonster at gmail.com (David Mason) ([Leica] Fair enough)
Message from daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Fair enough)