On 8 February 2011 11:34, Hans Breuer <h...@breuer.org> wrote:

> 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.


Piping up with some of my design ideas from when I was working on this. The
system in place now (with having a "text edit" mode where the text being
edited marked in yellow) was one step on a road to better editing.


>  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.
>

My idea was to replace the current text input with and embedded GTK widget,
thus getting Dia out of the responsibility of any of the input stuff. This
would not be exactly WYSIWIG, as there would be some difference in the
rendering between the GTK widget and the final Dia output, but it would
allow us to make use of a lot of input stuff GTK  has done.


>
>  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 ...
>

I was hoping to do a LaTeX object, where you'd enter text like a normal text
object, but the rendering would be outsourced to a LaTeX command that sends
back a bitmap of appropriate size. Never got to do this, and I won't do now.

-Lars
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