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

[ZASKE Martin]

A big Thank You to all those involved!

We have a bug, which prevented us so far to have the tone-marks (look
like accents) properly stacked on certain characters for our main
project language.

We are hearing that this (our) bug is now fixed, even got emails from
the bug-machine. This is indeed important and we celebrate with you.

I tried once to build from source and it took me days of downloading
(African Internet connection) and figuring out stuff.

We would gladly help testing, but would so appreciate if the veterans
could build a testing-version for either OpenSuse and/or Win 10 pro 64bit.
	At the moment time is tight, so building is impossible, But testing is
different, we are making documents all the time and could just open
"real documents from the wild" in the new version and see what flies and
what still sticks.

all thumbs up,

Martin




On 05.12.2016 08:16, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
> 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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