[...] > I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good, > typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX, > in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using > some variant of TeX (LuaTeX is my preferred). The free "DTP" application > can't even do simple things like standard ligatures!
What about your experiments hooking up XeTex with Scribus? A more recent experiment is described here and points back to your work: http://www.gastarbeiter.se/post/2010/02/22/scribus-xetex-opentype http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8136 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8876 > Regards, > Khaled Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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