Along the lines of this discussion, I'm interested in incorporating features from the new Text Layout Framework for Flash ( http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/) into LzText and LzInputText.
The Text Layout Framework says it provides: - Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others - Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images - Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography - Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens - Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing - Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components. It would be good to know what the intersection is between the HTML 5 and CSS 3 text features and the Flash Text Layout Framework. Then we could decide which new features we try to make cross platform APIs for. I'm about to update the version of Flex 4 in the Laszlo compiler to the last 'stable build' from Adobe, which is 4.0.0.6898 Thu May 14, 2009. When I do this, there will be a version of the text layout framework libraries which should be usable for experimenting in Flash 10 with.
