Hello! I'm new to Scribus and when googling for information on support of OpenType fonts and typographic features, I came across this Scribus Wiki entry ...
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Adding_typographic_spaces_to_fonts_with_FontForge ("Adding typographic spaces to fonts with FontForge") ... and think I have a first suggestion: If I understand the how-to right, Scribus requires that fonts supply these space glyphs. Which they normally don't. It's not even necessary that fonts have these spaces, because Scribus could calculate these en-, em-, 1/4-, 1/8- &c spaces from the font's UPM (= em-space width), which automatically gives en-space (= 1/2 UPM), 1/4-space (= 1/4 UPM), &c. I think this would be a good addition. An aside: Some foundries do NOT allow the modification of their fonts. E.g. Linotype -- whose Caecilia is used as an example in this how-to -- strictly forbit it. So, a very dangerous recommendation. Moreover, it's a lot of work for larger families, and also most likely that things, esp. OpenType features, get broken when opening and re-generating OpenType fonts. As Mr Auclair indicates in the update to his Wiki how-to: "Some people have said they were having problems with their converted fonts." ;-) I'm very keen to see how Scribus will develop! Is my understanding correct that there is no support of typographic OpenType features yet? Best wishes, Karsten
