Anton Litvinov wrote:
- facilitate users with TeX-formulas input (Abiword guys already have
this)
This is a very big project in itself: we would need to call pdflatex, convert the embedded fonts to SVG fonts and finally import the text. SVG font support seems to be the big thing here. Once this gets in, it might be implemented as an extension. Abiword does this he half-baked way by just implementing a (La)TeX formula parser and doing the layout in the application. I don't think this is what the users want. They want the excellent output quality of TeX, not just a way to enter equations.
I think idea 1 is equivalent to kerning. I second idea 2, I run into a need for this a few times already, and I ended up creating a new text object.
I'd look into the following advanced text features before going full-out on TeX: - vertical alignment of flowed text in th frame - automatic hyphenation - this would be just wonderful to have! - mouse based editing of text-on-path starting point and kerning - this is very important as well. - paragraph indent (this can be emulated with kerning, but the indent has to be set manually for each paragraph) - paragraph spacing (ditto) - frame chaining (text flows in one frame and when it's full it continues in another) - resize to fill (adjust font size so that the text fills the frame; needs automatic hyphenation)
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński