On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 16:39, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
By delegating hyphenation to software designed for text rendering, we have more chance of getting good hyphenation not just in SVG documents (which pretty much never use body text, let alone hyphenation)
On the contrary, Inkscape is already used a lot for single-page leaflets, scientific posters, and other documents with a lot of flowed text. If we add hyphenation, it will be used even more.
Indeed, Inkscape is used for scientific posters which often include quite a bit of text. Considering that the usual alternative is PowerPoint (yes, really, people are designing 1.5x1 m posters in PPT) using Inkscape as it works now is already much better. Having (good) hyphenation would definitely be an immense plus. I add "good" because, even if scientific researchers are usually not known for their sense of design (see above...), they are used to press-quality text layout in articles or latex-level hyphenation support. So hyphenation is an area where they might be able to tell the difference.
An alternative would be to have an easy way to edit SVGs with Inkscape from within a Scribus document. Scribus has support for hyphenation (not excellent as far as I can tell, but good enough) and produces very high quality PDFs that facilitate printing. Would it be even imaginable to have a right-click option "Edit in Inkscape" for SVGs in Scribus?
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