On 05/16/2013 03:29 PM, scribus.mantis.mail_in at a-bc.net wrote: > Dear list, > > thank you all for Scribus. I am new to the list but not to Scribus. We > are publishing literacy materials for an African language. See my humble > success story on your wiki in 2012 and/or look here: > > www.revue-gugu.org > > > With recent development of the language, there are changes coming up for > the orthography. It will mean (one or more) tone marks on certain vowels > and possibly even certain consonants. (And it will help the population > to read more fluently, because ambiguity will be reduced.) > > I have searched through some deep stuff, where your developers meet, and > what I understand is, that some time, there will be an entire re-write > of your "text-engine" or what you call that. > > I can see that a lot of people from Asia are working and hoping for some > very complicated and wonderful functionality. > > > All we would need is some help, for correctly placing those famous > combining diacritical marks, listed as Unicode U+300 to U+036F. We only > need a fraction of those, and our vowels are these:
Fontforge is a do-it-yourself tool for editing the glyphs for various fonts. http://fontforge.org/ You might also check the open font library http://openfontlibrary.org/ where you can check out fonts, but also perhaps contact some font designers who could give you advice, maybe even some help. Greg
