<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> Hi all! Last week, we focused on the Navigator sidebar deck, a feature that has steadily become more useful over the last few years of development. Over the week, 18 issues were touched, of which 5 were resolved, of which 2 were fixed by Jim: <ul> <li>Subsections are now collapsible: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158103">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158103</a></li> <li>Protect and Hide are now available from a section's context menu: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157681">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157681</a></li> </ul> Thanks goes in particular to Jim, Bogdan, Heiko, Sophie, Ilmari and Stuart! This week, we focus on issues related to Right-to-Left languages and scripts, or "RTL". This includes writing systems used in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Kashmiri, Pashto, Uighur, Urdu, Sindhi and Sorani[1]. Such issues might be related to how a font is rendered, how well the text layout is handled or how functional the RTL user interface (UI) is. To find relevant issues, go to this meta bug: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43808&hide_resolved=1">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43808&hide_resolved=1</a> Some issues might need consolidating, re-testing or clarifying. If you want to focus on one language, you can find more precise meta bugs in the tree. You can also look for issues that mention "RTL" but are not categorised as such. They might need a relevant meta bug number added to the "Blocks" field: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://link.infini.fr/rtl">https://link.infini.fr/rtl</a> About testing: <ul> <li>Testing layout and rendering in a document: turning on RTL support in LibreOffice needs to be done with Options > LibreOffice > Languages and Locales > General > Complex Text Layout.</li> <li>Testing RTL UI issues: you can turn it on temporarily without changing the UI language by starting LibreOffice from the command line with the "SAL_RTL_ENABLED" environment variable. For example: </li> </ul> SAL_RTL_ENABLED=1 libreoffice Communication: <ul> <li>For any question or doubt, please join us on the RTL IRC channel: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ircs://libera.chat/#libreoffice-rtl">ircs://libera.chat/#libreoffice-rtl</a></li> <ul> <li>It is bridged to a Telegram channel: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.me/+DSy7T-Akx4VkM2Rk">https://t.me/+DSy7T-Akx4VkM2Rk</a></li> </ul> <li>There are also language-specific channels:</li> <ul> <li>Arabic: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.me/LibreOffice_Arabic">https://t.me/LibreOffice_Arabic</a></li> <li>Hebrew: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.me/+3E8Ggr5sx91mNjQ0">https://t.me/+3E8Ggr5sx91mNjQ0</a> </li> </ul> </ul> Some other useful links: <ul> <li>Our Weekly Focus pad: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/qa">https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/qa</a> </li> <li>RTL issues on the Wiki: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/RTL_Bugs">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/RTL_Bugs</a></li> <li>Some issues might be related to the text-shaping library HarfBuzz (LibreOffice is currently built using HarfBuzz 8.2.2). If we identify an issue comes from upstream, we can report it there: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues">https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues</a> </li> </ul> Thanks everyone for your contributions! [1]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_script">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_script</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Stéphane Guillou Quality Assurance Analyst | The Document Foundation Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephane.guillou@libreoffice.org">stephane.guillou@libreoffice.org</a> Matrix: @stragu:matrix.org Fediverse: @stragu@mastodon.indie.host Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://stragu.gitlab.io/">https://stragu.gitlab.io/</a></pre> </body> </html>