<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello,<br><br>Scribus is now rewriting its text engine, based on Harfbuzz, ICU etc. and the project is being actively developed. I was following the development of this project, but couldn't make up since I had to concentrate on to GSoC works.<br>
<br>As per mails from Pierre Marchand, the developer of this work, it is far from being qualified as alpha stage, but the following mails in mailing list give us hope : <br><br></font><ol><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Support for Hindi (<a href="http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-November/000695.html">http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-November/000695.html</a>). Here's the image sample generated: <a href="http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/attachments/20101130/a89e0529/attachment-0001.png">http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/attachments/20101130/a89e0529/attachment-0001.png</a></font></li>
<li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Support for Arabic (<a href="http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-November/000670.html">http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-November/000670.html</a>). There are also images attached in this email!</font></li>
</ol><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As I read, it seems University wants to develop the DTP software from scratch, which is not needed. Pierre has not yet committed the code completely into OIF branch, hence it may break now. I've contacted the team members to know about the current status of this project, waiting for their reply :)<br>
</font><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/5 ashik salahudeen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aashiks@gmail.com">aashiks@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The job posting looks very suspicious - I believe they already have<br>
people who they want to recruit. Otherwise why the "Master's in<br>
Computer Science" "no career gap" <- These are not factors that<br>
determine someone is a good programmer or not.<br>
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--<br>
aashik<br>
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2011/7/5 sooraj kenoth <<a href="mailto:soorajkenoth@gmail.com">soorajkenoth@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">>> പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഉദ്ദേശ്യം കൊള്ളാം. പുതുതായി ഒന്നു നിര്മിക്കുന്നതു്<br>
>> പ്രായോഗികമാവും എന്നു തോന്നുന്നില്ല. നിലവിലെ FOSS DTP അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകളില്<br>
>> മലയാളം പിന്തുണ ചേര്ക്കുകയാണു് നല്ലതു്. തൃശ്ശൂരിലെ ജെയിനുമായി<br>
>> സംസാരിക്കുന്നതു് നല്ലതായിരിക്കും.<br>
><br>
> ജയിന് നമ്മുടെ മെയിലിങ്ങ് ലിസ്റ്റിലുണ്ട്. അവന് തിരക്കിലായിരിക്കും.<br>
> Gsoc-ന്റെ അവസാന ഘട്ടത്തിലാണ്. വൈകീട്ട് വിളിക്കാം എന്ന് വിചാരിച്ചു.<br>
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>> I don't understand why a University wants to develop a new DTP software.<br>
>> The best thing for all their purposes is LaTeX. In fact, better than any<br>
>> piece of DTP software for academic publications. They can manage even a<br>
>> newsletter with that. But even if they need something for a newsletter,<br>
>> they can do it quite comfortably with Open/Libre Office. I think someone<br>
>> has to tell them this. Maybe someone who has access to the VC.<br>
>><br>
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> This might be for their office use.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Regards<br>
> Sooraj Kenoth<br>
> Zyxware Technologies<br>
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