Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 84403
Bali Simbar Font
Last modified: 2009-07-24 10:38:00 UTC
We are Balinese, sometime use our special font. Free distribute by http://www.babadbali.com/aksarabali/bali-b.zip with macro. Can anybody help, how to use it ?
Dear putude, If you want built-in support for your script in OpenOffice.org and many other FLOSS products such as Linux distributions, you need to: 1. get official codepoints for your glyphs at Unicode.org (if you need a contact Michael Everson has been doing wonderful work for many scripts) 2. release a reference font under a suitable license such as the OFL http://scripts.sil.org/OFL It's much better to complete an existing already widely distributed font such as dejavu http://dejavu.sf.net by sending patches to its authors, that's how the Armenians, Georgians, N'ko, Tiffinagh and Inuktitut people got their script widely supported. If you want a separate font, however, please ask the Open Font Library guys how to set up your own project http://openfontlibrary.org/ 3. get special processing implemented in text layout libraries if needed. That mostly means Pango http://www.pango.org/ which will morph into Harfbuzz http://www.pango.org/ and hopefully serve as base to next-generation ICU & QT layouters. In the short term ICU support is required for OO.o but be aware almost no other FLOSS software uses ICU so ICU is not sufficient for comprehensive support. 4. add an input method to either xkeyboard-config http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig or SCIM http://www.scim-im.org/ depending of the complexity of your input needs If you have more special requirements participating in next year's Text Summit http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout will help. The release archive you're pointing to, with it's Office macro is totally insufficient and inapropriate and most everyone will ignore it.
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