Re: Text editing

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 08.02.2011 10:07, Ismail Hameduddin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is any development on the text editing capabilities of Dia.
Not that I know of.

> I use Dia for technical purposes and it would be very handy if I could
> subscript/superscript letters and numbers
This would indeed be handy, but at the moment even preconditions like the 
ability to select only part of a text is missing. I could give some hints 
for someone interested to implement some improvements.

> as well as use the Greek alphabet.
This is possible by using the right input method. If you have a better 
editor also copy&paste would work.

> Of course having full LaTeX compatibility is the best option
I don't think so. At least for the in diagram editing it should remain 
WYSIWYG ...
> but as I understand it, this is a more difficult proposition.
Yeah, embedding TeX even looks like a no-option to me.

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