[scribus] Scribus arabic

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 10:27:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM, ale rimoldi wrote:

> afaict, the text field in the render frame editor (as well as the ones
> in the story editor) are directly managed by Qt.
>
> so, all languages and features supported by Qt are accessible there.
> this seems to include arabic scripts... but, probably, not advanced
> typographic rules (kerning and so on...).
>
> that's why the scribus "main workspace" has to reimplement all the
> glyph handling and can't rely on what Qt can do itself.
>
> but: who knows? maybe nowadays Qt would simple be good enough?

http://behdad.org/text/

Maybe we can get Behdad to update it.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org



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