On 08/29/2015 04:45 PM, Alex Zepeda wrote: > 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? >
There was a group that met at LGM 2015 this year to begin to discuss/work on incorporating OpenType support in LGM software of various types. http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2015/05/07/opentype-workshop-lgm-2015/ You might contact Nate to see where things stand at the moment. I know Andreas Vox from Scribus expressed interest in this. Eventually I think this will come, though it may be subject to fits and starts at this point. Greg
