[Scribus] Linux Font Editor?

[Asif Lodhi]

Hi,

On 10/28/05, PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote:
> On Friday 28 October 2005 17:47, John Jordan wrote:
> > On 28 Oct 2005, at 11:37, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 10:26 schrieb Tobias Hilbricht:
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 22:48 schrieb John Jordan:
> >.....................................X. For those not familiar with IPA, these
> > are special symbols that you can stick on any character, like
> > accents. They are drawn so that they appear one character to the
> > left of the actual space where typed - but take up no space on the
> > line, so the next character's spacing is correct. In the IPA there
> > are a ton of these.
> > X....................................................................................X
> Offering this capability is not a simple task. This function will
> require a complete re-write of some core parts of Scribus. The aim is
> to be able to support this type of functionality for Arabic, Indic
> Script and other complex scripts. Being able to add IPA support
> should not be too difficult.

An obvious application of such capability is composing the pronunciation chart!

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Asif