[scribus] CTL code merge successfully finished. This is huge!

["Christoph Schäfer"]

No, Fahad, congratulations to *you*. Without you, this milestone wouldn't exist. You are one of the Scribus development heroes, alongside Franz Schmid, Andreas Vox, Jean Ghali or Craig Bradney.

I don't know if you have an idea what this means to Asian language communities which have been ignored by commercial DTP software vendors.

Thank you sooooo much!
Christoph


> Gesendet: Dienstag, 06. Dezember 2016 um 03:23 Uhr
> Von: "Fahad Al-Saidi" <fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com>
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Cc: "Scribus Development Mailing List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] CTL code merge successfully finished. This is huge!
>
> Congratulations to all for this achievement. I am happy to help scribus to
> reach to more people around the world .
> 
> Regards ,
> Fahad Al-Saidi
> 
> On 5 Dec 2016 4:51 p.m., "David Goss" <goss at fstrf.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is fantastic news! I can't wait to use these features (especially
> > opentype) in 1.5.3!
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > David Goss, Technical Writer
> > Frontier Science (www.frontierscience.org)
> > LDMS (www.ldms.org)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
> > To: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net, "scribus" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 2:16:49 AM
> > Subject: [scribus] CTL code merge successfully finished. This is huge!
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Yesterday was one of the most important dates in the history of Scribus so
> > far. After more than a year of hard work by Khaled Hosny, Fahad Al-Saidi
> > and the rest of the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, as well as
> > Andreas Vox, the new text layout engine has been merged successfully with
> > trunk and thus became part of Scribus 1.5svn.
> >
> > The code rewrite enabled us to close dozens of long-standing feature
> > requests and brings exciting new feature to Scribus.
> >
> > Here's what you'll get:
> >
> > - Dramatically improved speed for typing and editing text on canvas.
> >
> > - A font preview in font selectors as you are used to from other layout
> > and word processing programmes. It's still a bit clumsy and slow,
> > especially if you have many fonts installed, but it works.
> >
> > - Support for about 500 languages and/or scripts. Typographical settings
> > (OTF) are now language-based.
> >
> > - Support for right-to-left scripts.
> >
> > - Support for advanced OpenType features like automatic ligatures or old
> > style numbers.
> >
> > - These features are also available in the Style Manager.
> >
> >
> > In addition, the Text tab has been removed from the Properties Palette, so
> > there is now a separate UI palette called "Text Properties". (Windows >
> > Text Properties)
> >
> > Those who build Scribus trunk from source are invited to test the new
> > features and capabilities to the extreme, especially with complex scripts
> > and fully-featured OpenType fonts, so we get everything right in the
> > upcoming 1.5.3 release. Please don't forget to test PDF export as well.
> >
> >
> > Happy testing (and please do test!)
> >
> > Christoph
> >
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