Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, since you seem to be interested in the text tool and how to improve it, here are some small steps that I would suggest you (or anyone else) starts with: Finish work on the text box. The text tool was always supposed to allow the user to create a rectangular text box so that the text flows

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:29 +0100, Marcus Heese wrote: First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to have a well-designed font selection dialog, that allows a quick selection of a font even when you have a lot of fonts installed and you're perhaps searching for

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called tracking is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, tracking adjusts space between words. Letter spacing in GIMP is a simple solution

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Marcus Heese
Alexandre Prokoudine schrieb: On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called tracking is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, Yup... that's right! tracking adjusts space