Hi, On 10/28/05, PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 17:47, John Jordan wrote: > > On 28 Oct 2005, at 11:37, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 10:26 schrieb Tobias Hilbricht: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 22:48 schrieb John Jordan: > >.....................................X. For those not familiar with IPA, > >these > > are special symbols that you can stick on any character, like > > accents. They are drawn so that they appear one character to the > > left of the actual space where typed - but take up no space on the > > line, so the next character's spacing is correct. In the IPA there > > are a ton of these. > > X....................................................................................X > Offering this capability is not a simple task. This function will > require a complete re-write of some core parts of Scribus. The aim is > to be able to support this type of functionality for Arabic, Indic > Script and other complex scripts. Being able to add IPA support > should not be too difficult.
An obvious application of such capability is composing the pronunciation chart! -- Asif
