Fwd: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for abiword stable branch.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi, forwarding this request for help from the Abiword developers.

Would be great to improve Write's script support for the next
milestone (due in August).

Thanks!

Tomeu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Edmund Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Subject: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for abiword stable branch.
To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>, sugar at laptop.org
Cc: msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au



Hi everyone,
           AbiWord provides the foundation for the write activity
within sugar. Very recently we discovered critical bu in  our 2.6
series which manifested itself as inconsistent layout and printing.

Fixing this required substantial changes to our core graphics
rendering classes. This might have affected AbiWord's (and hence
Write's) ability to  render bidirectional text and complex scripts.

Unfortunately our core abiword hackers are not proficient at either of
these so I'm asking for help from people who know about bi-directional
text and/or complex texts.

Please build our stable branch of the our code and report your tests
to abiword-dev at abisource.com.
You can checkout the correct branch with this svn command.

svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6

You'll need the development versions of a number of libraries to build
abiword though if your ever managed to build write via sugar-jhbuild
you'll have what you need already. More information is in
abiword-2.6/docs/build.txt

Thank you very much. All help is appreciated.

Cheers

Martin