2007/3/13, Plinnell <<a href="mailto:mrdocs@scribus.info">mrdocs@scribus.info</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: <snip> > > Advanced typography features wouldn't hurt. Manual kerning, caps, > maybe even single glyph rotation (or will it be overkill?). For > italic/bold -- I like bulia's idea on "make bolder/lighter" for > fonts with multiple faces. Or do we allow fake bold fonts? > > I'd like to see mrdocs's and LousD's opinions here. > > Alexandre > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create"> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a> Since you asked... :) Both Craig Ringer and I are in total agreement with 'fake bold/italics' <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/False_bold"> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/False_bold</a> I'll let Louis make his own comments.</blockquote><div> Hi Alexandre! In short, I am clearly with Peter and Craig Ringer on this. Please read the wiki for the whole picture and also this discussion on the bug tracker of Scribus: <a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1076">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1076</a> Louis  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Peter _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create"> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a> </blockquote></div>