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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New internal command for acme proposal (with implementations)
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2014 08:04:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB2BF613-1D6B-4BAC-B9E8-11D0BCFF00AE@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9031696b55153f1092b3e564463f31fd@mikro.quanstro.net>


On Feb 5, 2014, at 3:36 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> once one thinks about major modifications, i think it becomes attractive
> to think about a new editor.  i miss having graphics.
If you mean mixed text and image, you will end up with some sort of structured markup language and a "word processor"!

What I want is support for complex text layout rendering (for Indian languages among others). This requires supporting OpenType fonts, not an easy task. Mac's TextEdit seems to do a decent job of this but I don't like it as an editor. 


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24 10:44 Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 10:59 ` Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 11:15 ` dexen deVries
2014-02-05 10:49 ` Alexander Sychev
2014-02-05 11:36   ` erik quanstrom
2014-02-05 16:04     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2014-02-05 16:10       ` erik quanstrom
2014-02-05 16:26         ` Bakul Shah
2014-02-05 16:39       ` dexen deVries
2014-02-05 17:04         ` Bakul Shah
2014-01-24 12:49 Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 17:32 ` Bence Fábián

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