<div dir="ltr">Hey everyone,<br><br>I have a patch for bug #1079 <a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1079">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1079</a><br><br>ok it's not really a patch; it's a git repository on github <a href="http://github.com/hasenj/scribus">http://github.com/hasenj/scribus</a><br>
<br>I try to merge often with upstream (svn) to keep it up to date, so I can send it as a patch any time.<br><br>Demo: <a href="http://i48.tinypic.com/1679ukz.png">http://i48.tinypic.com/1679ukz.png</a><br><br>I got a couple of guys to help me test it and we eliminated most of the
bugs. The only bugs remaining are those related to printing and
exporting to pdf. So basically this patch is mostly for displaying the text properly. Of course, if you can't print or export, then what's the point, right? bug I'll ignore this for the time being.<br><br>I'm also not much of a publisher guy, so I can't add any typesetting features that are specific to Arabic.<br>
<br>The code is quite hakish, and I don't mean the code itself, but the way it interacts with the layout method is a big hack. I'm basically hijacking it; inject some pre-processing and post-processing code that handles bidi and shaping, and hope that nothing breaks as a result.<br>
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