[scribus] OpenType alternate glyph support

[Alex Zepeda]

Regarding issue #1413

<http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1413>

I'm curious to see what the status of this is.  I migrated to InDesign 
from Scribus because I use a couple of fonts (FF Zwo and Mister K) that 
make heavy use of alternate glyphs and ligatures respectively.

I'd love to move back to Scribus, but specifically with Zwo I use 
alternate glyphs for the following characters: 2, 3, 4, @, a, g, u.  So 
entering them in manually would be quite a chore beyond a few words.

It looks like there was talk of a 1,000 GBP bounty, but it doesn't seem 
as if anything actually materialized.  I'd love to throw some cash at 
this feature, but before going down that road I was wondering:

- Are there any Scribus developers who would be interested in working on 
this feature?  If so, have they set a price they'd like to see?

- Has a list of requirements and acceptance criteria been compiled?  Has 
the time required to implement this been estimated yet?  It looks like 
two interrelated, but separate, features were being discussed (ligatures 
and alternate glyphs).

- What's the status of the existing private branch that was discussed ~5 
years ago?

Cheers!

-- 
alex