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

Hi,
Sorry for my late answer. Here's Nowruz
holidays<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz>
.

In MS Word, you have various options for inserting kashida. When you select
Right/Left/Center/Justified alignment, no kashida is placed. But when you
select Justify Low/Medium/High, it inserts Low/Medium/High length kashida in
the text. I think looking at paragraph alignment is a good way to
manage kashida
placement.

But I don't exactly understand the problem. There was some problem with
kashida placement in OpenOffice before, which caused defect output. But it
is fixed now <http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60594>. Do you
want to know "where kashida is allowed" or "where to put kashida to make the
text look nice"?

Happy Nowrouz
Hossein

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Sophie Gautier <gautier.sophie@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> May be some of you will be able to help here?
> Kind regards
> Sophie
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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