> afaict, the text field in the render frame editor (as well as the ones > in the story editor) are directly managed by Qt. >
Ok i can understand that ;) and that we won't switch to gtk [inkscape handle it well :) ] > so, all languages and features supported by Qt are accessible there. > this seems to include arabic scripts... but, probably, not advanced > typographic rules (kerning and so on...). > in fact, it seems that the designers i'm working with here, never use kerning in arabic. > that's why the scribus "main workspace" has to reimplement all the > glyph handling and can't rely on what Qt can do itself. > > but: who knows? maybe nowadays Qt would simple be good enough? Well, i was just trying to find a quick way to have a minimal and worthy support for arabic without much development. :) cheers
