AaronShep Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 You've done fantastic work on this software, so it's painful to see that basic typography is inadequate. You desperately need a more sophisticated justification engine, and you need it right from the start, so that later versions of the software don't change line breaks and pagination. Have you considered porting the TeX justification engine, which is Open Source? I've heard that's basically what Adobe did with InDesign, though I'm not sure I believe it. Also, hyphenation is not working properly on the Mac in version 1.7.0.58. Using your default hyphenation settings -- the same as used in your tutorial -- hardly anything gets hyphenated, unlike what the tutorial shows. As things look now, I would be very happy to work with this software, but only for projects with left-aligned text, no justication. Which is sadly limiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I believe TeX is actually public domain? Personally I think it would be nice to have metafont support, but I'm sure that's a fairly large effort, so I'm not holding my breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 39 minutes ago, fde101 said: I believe TeX is actually public domain? Yes, if Wikipedia's information is correct. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted September 25, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2018 @AaronShep Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums For many languages you will need to install your own (spelling and) hyphenation dictionaries. We are still working on improving hyphenation, but we are not using the TeX source code, no. Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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