On Sunday 08 May 2005 16:32, Maciej Hanski wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2005 09:10:04 -0400 > > Louis Desjardins <louisdesjardins at videotron.ca> wrote: > > >On Sunday 08 of May 2005 13:51, Craig Bradney wrote: > > >> If you want to use ligatures, you have to put them in manually at > > > > > >this> point in time. > > > > > >...and it's very annoying. It should be done automatically. Other > > >thing - it will be propably time consuming for large texts. > > > > This is a perfect use for a "multiple search & replace" feature which > > would allow users to set any number of strings to be looked for and > > substituted, at once. One could save this search & replace file for > > further use. So, in the ligature case, you could have a preset file > > simply called "Ligatures" and call it at any time in production. > > > > That way, and until OpenType extra glyphs are fully and automatically > > supported in Scribus (and even when they are), this could make > > possible the use of the Expert series fonts that have all those extra > > glyphs not found in the regular typeface. Who wants to search & > > replace *one at a time* all the digits from 0 to 9 to set the regular > > "Cap height" numbers to their "lowercase" counterparts? etc. Examples > > for this are tons. > > > > AFAIK, "multiple search & replace" doesn't exist in any of the > > well-known DTP app (nor in any WP app). Only Quark had an XTension > > called AliasPro back in the years of version 2-3-4. This XTension is > > not maintained anymore. It was perfect to "clean" text coming from > > various sources and help formatting. > > > > Personnaly, I would see this feature as a *very* nice addition to > > Scribus. > > I wonder, if this ligature issue couldn't be rather a job for a plug in > or an extension script, the kind of Petr's Short Words? What I don't > understand is, how do other applications (e.g. LaTeX -- Petr?) know > which glyphs and how to substitute? Is this information delivered with > the font, or does a user always have to define it from scratch? If it's > delivered with the font or a particular type of fonts (Type1, what > else?), user interaction woudn't be necessary, right? An user could > just execute the script the way he does with the hyphenation (before or > after hyphenation?).
The new text system coming to 1.3.x (where I dont know where .x is, yet) should handle it all automagically. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050508/1add99fd/attachment.pgp
