I started a wiki page for the text enhancements http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Enhanced_Text_API
It's just a placeholder right now, I'll propose some actual API examples as soon as I get some experiments done. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Great, Henry! Do we already have a Wiki page where we can assemble the > information? I"ll do some research on what can be done in HTML5 with CSS2/3. > > On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Henry Minsky wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [email protected]
