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[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:46:24 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good,
> > > typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX,
> > > in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using
> > > some variant of TeX (LuaTeX is my preferred). The free "DTP"
> > > application can't even do simple things like standard ligatures!
> >
> > What about your experiments hooking up XeTex with Scribus?
> >
> > A more recent experiment is described here and points back to your work:
> > http://www.gastarbeiter.se/post/2010/02/22/scribus-xetex-opentype
> > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8136
> > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8876
>
> It turned out to be cumbersome and not very well integrated (the TeX
> frame is essentially an isolated object that doesn't interact with the
> rest of scribus), and I found that doing it all in TeX is much easier
> and more powerful. So, I ended up using ConTeXt for the book I was
> doing, and it never let me down.
>
> There is actually some guy who got harfbuzz hooked into scribus, but, as
> usual, scribus developers just ignored him[1].
>
> [1]
> http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus-dev/2010-January/000509.html

Just to set the record straight: He has *not* been ignored. We have discussed 
the issues with him on IRC.

Christoph