Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Gail Carmichael wrote:

  
 I'm still hoping to continue with the font support, but it will depend
 on Pango.  I wouldn't mind hearing what other text improvements are top
 of the list for you guys.  Would give me a good idea what to focus on.
    

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171141 + comments :)

While this is marked as wishlist, this is a very popular feature request.

Oh yeah, that would be cool to work on.  I did some small work on bullets in DRAW, adding that might be doable as a summer of code project without too much or any core change.  What do you guys think about this time-wise?

Gail