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Inkscape 0.47 released

Posted Nov 25, 2009 17:56 UTC (Wed) by rmano (subscriber, #49886)
Parent article: Inkscape 0.47 released

Anybody knows if text subscript/superscript has been implemented? Thanks.

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subscripts/superscripts

Posted Nov 26, 2009 1:08 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link]

Nope, it looks like the only text formatting that can be applied is bold and/or italic; vertical positioning is still basically manual. A shame, since bug reports for this feature have been open since 2004, and it is so important for technical illustration. A surprising omission in such an otherwise full-featured program, especially since subscripts/superscripts are directly supported in SVG.

subscripts/superscripts

Posted Nov 28, 2009 11:00 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Hey, we have autosave working. I call it a big step forward.

subscripts/superscripts

Posted Nov 29, 2009 9:41 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

While still not really user-ready, Karbon is slowly getting there so they
should hurry to stay ahead :D

underline as well

Posted Nov 26, 2009 11:04 UTC (Thu) by osma (subscriber, #6912) [Link]

Apparently underlining of text is also not yet supported. Too bad, since it's very useful for drawing website mockups. At least this bug doesn't mention any recent developments, and the sibling poster only mentioned bold and italic text styling options.

But if I'm wrong here, please correct me! I haven't tried 0.47 myself, and due to lazyness probably won't until it shows up in the next distro release.