[scribus] Fwd: Improve typographic rule support

[john Culleton]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:06:28 +0200
ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi john,
> 
> > Scribus is essentially wysiwyg and TeX is compilative. But the
> > paragraph making code could be copied, including the
> > microtypography part, just as hanging punctuation was incorporated
> > into Scribus. Adobe took that same paragraph making code and
> > incorporated it into InDesign. Can we do the same?
> 
> iirc it's already -- at least partially -- done... or there are
> concrete plans to go in that direction.
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
> 
>
AFAIK the key missing element is the paragraph at a time justification
as opposed to line at at time justification. 

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