On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:22 AM, David Marín Carreño <dmarin@...2333...> wrote:
Vertical alignment property for a text block, so text can be shown at the top, the bottom, or centered.
This only makes sense for a flowed text block which has a frame to align to, not for regular text. Still, it would be a useful possibility.
Kerning adjustment for texts. Tracking adjustment for texts. Word-spacing adjustment for texts.
Kerning and tracking already work and are accessible via keyboard shortcuts. Right now, Tavmjong works on a UI for them as well, to be placed on the text tool's controls bar.
As for word spacing, I'm not sure it is even supported when specified in SVG, and there are no shortcuts. But it should be doable without much difficulty I think.
My new project really need these features from Inkscape, so we'd like to provide funds for the project so they can be included as soon as possible.
As we are currently in the process of getting funds from investors, I'd like to know what would be the approximated budget for implementing these features, and how log it would take (approximately).
In fact, Tavmjong is already funded by Linux Foundation for his text UI work. You can discuss with him to find out about the budget and about how much of his work overlaps with yours :)