Re: [OOo-Hebrew] detection of Amharic fonts

Hi Amir,
This sounds like the type of featue we would be willing to consider. 
Please file a feature request in http://bugzilla.openoffice.org.il.
Thanks,

  - yba


On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:46:56 +0200
> From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
> To: OpenOffice Hebrew mailing list <[email protected]>
> Subject: [OOo-Hebrew] detection of Amharic fonts
> 
> Hello,
>
> On my work computer i often write texts in English, Hebrew and
> Amharic. It is Windows XP (i have no choice about that) and i try to
> use OpenOffice when i can; i use MS Word when i have no choice.
>
> Windows doesn't support Amharic out-of-the-box, so i use a program
> called Tavultesoft Keyman. The font i use for Amharic is GF Zemen
> Unicode (see http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Can%27t_see_the_font%3F
> for a download source). There's also Code 2000, but its glyphs don't
> look so nice ( http://www.code2000.net/ ).
>
> The problem is this:
> To type Amharic i press Ctrl-Alt-G, which enables Keyman. MS Word
> somehow detects it and changes the current font to GF Zemen Unicode.
> OO doesn't detect it and stays with Arial, Times New Roman or whatever
> it is at that time and every time i press Ctrl-Alt-G i need to change
> the font manually. When i want to go back to Latin characters, i press
> Ctrl-Alt-O, and the same thing happens: MS Word goes back to the Latin
> font that was used before Amharic, but OO stays with GF Zemen Unicode
> which has terrible Latin glyphs.
>
> I use Ubuntu on my home computer, but i've never succeeded at
> configuring it for typing in Amharic, but it's a totally different
> problem.
>
> Any ideas? Or should i report it as a requested feature?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>

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