[scribus-dev] enhancing RTL and Arabic: what it takes

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 05. März 2014 um 00:43 Uhr
> Von: "Ahmad Gharbeia" <ahmad at arabdigitalexpression.org>
> An: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: [scribus-dev] enhancing RTL and Arabic: what it takes
>
> Hello,
> 
> We at Arab Digital Expression Foundation - based in Egypt - are
> concerned in enhancing FOSS tools that are useful to content creators in
> different media, as well as systems that facilitate the creation and
> organisation of knowledge repositories.
> 
> We're currently considering raising funds to enhance Scribus ability to
> support Arabic. Our goal is to have it usable for Arabic Typesetting,
> and then localising its UI into Arabic.
> 
> The questions we have are:
> * Is this possible at all with the current design?
> * Is this welcomed by this developers' community?
> * Is there currently a well-described set of development tasks that
> would realise this?
> * If so, what's an estimated timeframe to do so? At what estimated cost?
> * Are all the required skills present in the developers community?
> * If there's currently no such task list, is it possible to develop it?
> 
> We are in the early phase of this project but we are able to move fast
> once the feasibility of effecting measurable change in the desired
> direction can be articulated.
> 
> Looking forward to get this conversation started,
> 
> Reagrds,
> Ahmad Gharbeia

Hi Ahmad,

Thank you very much contacting us! I will reply off-line, so I can send you an address of someone who's not registered here.

Kind Regards,

Christoph