On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > [...] > > > 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
It turned out to be cumbersome and not very well integrated (the TeX frame is essentially an isolated object that doesn't interact with the rest of scribus), and I found that doing it all in TeX is much easier and more powerful. So, I ended up using ConTeXt for the book I was doing, and it never let me down. There is actually some guy who got harfbuzz hooked into scribus, but, as usual, scribus developers just ignored him[1]. [1] http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-January/000509.html Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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