salut c?dric, > 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.
the problem is that you will want to have kerning support (and other advanced features) for the latin languages! i don't think that we want to have two different layout engines, one with simple non latin support and one with some advanced features for latin languages... at least, i don't think that this can be done in a shorter time than finishing the support for OTF in scribus... but, as i've already written in my preivous mail: who knows? ciao a.l.e
