Openoffice

We just formed Indic Regional Language group for Openoffice. This is as per the Openoffice Native Language Consortium Plans. The objectives of such groups can be read from here. Basically the group is meant for better coordination among Indic languages to make Openoffice experience in our language better. The announcement of this group is here Thanks to Charles-H. Schulz, we got a mailing list [email protected]. To subscribe login to http://native-lang.openoffice.org We just started, and I will soon setup a wiki page there. To start with , I will collect the list of issues pending for Indian languages from people from various languages and will find out people from various languages as point of contacts. Feel free to contact me for anything related to Openoffice in your language. ...

What is Hiphenation? Hyphenation is the process inserting hyphens in between the syllables of a word so that when the text is justified, maximum space is utilized. Hiphenation is an important feature that DTP softwares provide. For Indian languages there is no good DTP softwares available. XeTex is the only choice to work with unicode and professional quality page layout. But xetex and DTP are not exactly same. Inkscape can be used as temporary solution. But only for small scale works. There is a project going on to add Harfbuzz backend to Scribus, the freedomware DTP package. ...