[libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: [Libreoffice] fixing kashida insertion

Hi all,

May be some of you will be able to help here?
Kind regards
Sophie

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Subject: [Libreoffice] fixing kashida insertion
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:32:59 +0700
From: Martin Hosken <martin_hosken@sil.org>
To: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Dear Arabic experts,

The current kashida insertion implementation in libo is, to put it 
mildly, a disaster. As I see it there are a few options open to us:

1. Get it right. This is really hard and beyond my capabilities in the 
time I have available for this. But if someone wants to work out the 
preferred location for each word and then insert there, then go for it.

2. Implement dumb kashida placement that says: you can insert a kashida 
at any joining of two characters. This should be doable (famous last 
words) based on Unicode properties.

3. Don't do kashida insertion at all. This is probably better than the 
bad insertion we currently have.

I'm willing to have a go at 2 or 3. An alternative would be to add a 
switch in say Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids/Options or 
Options/Language Settings/Complex Text Layout to enable/disable kashida 
insertion. Such UI stuff is beyond me at the moment.

I'm also not an arabic expert or really have any feelings on the matter.

What would the arabic dev community suggest?

Yours,
Martin
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