Hi, As a footnote, I'd like to add that Quark has never had an elegant way to achieve this either. The only efficient way that I know to work with Expert fonts was to use an XTension (that is not supported anymore) running with version 4.x and below. (Something like a super search & replace dialog.)
Louis Andreas Vox a ?crit : > Robert Memering wrote: > >> Is there any way to find out if there's hope for these >> features to be included in the near future? > > > Depends on your concept of "near future": > * next four weeks: unlikely > * next four months: very likely > > I think it will definitely be included in the next major stable release > (1.4) > which will take some more time, since we are only at the beginning of > the 1.3 series. > >> I find them quite essential for high quality DTP. >> >> It seems that I will have to continue using LaTeX for >> things it wasn't intended for... > > > AFAIK you have to do some tweaking with LaTeX to access those font > features... > > I'm not very firm with Scribus scripting, but I think it would be > possible for you to develop a Python script "replace with oldstyle > numerals in selection" which automates the "insert special" procedure. > This is not the way we want to implement it though (we plan some sort of > charstyle for those features). > > /Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com
