On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Peter Nermander wrote: >> This way Support any language supported by Qt itself (Almost every human >> language) >> >> > But that will NOT solve how Scribus renders text on the canvas, becuase > there Scribus uses it's own rendering engine to be able to perform precise > glyph placement that a regular text input box can't handle.
What Peter said :) Also, Qt relies on the very same glyph shaper called harfbuzz that Scribus was going to use. I can recall at least 3 attempts to port Scribus to harfbuzz, but all contributors eventually disappeared without ever finishing their work, as far as I can tell. In other words, a little persistence applied in the right direction could get someone a status of international FOSS hero. Alex
