<br>Along the lines of this discussion, I'm interested in incorporating features from the new Text Layout Framework for Flash (<a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/</a>) into LzText<br>
and LzInputText. <br><br>The Text Layout Framework says it provides:<br><br><div class="columns-2-Abb-A">
<ul><li>Bidirectional
text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic,
Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems
of India, and others</li><li>Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images</li><li>Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography</li>
<li>Rich
typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case,
digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens</li><li>Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing</li><li>Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.</li>
</ul>
</div>It would be good to know what the intersection is between the HTML 5 and CSS 3 text features and the Flash Text Layout Framework. Then we could decide which new features we try to make cross platform APIs for. <br>
<br><br>I'm about to update the version of Flex 4 in the Laszlo compiler to the last 'stable build' from Adobe, which is 4.0.0.6898
Thu May 14, 2009. When I do this, there will be a version of the text layout framework libraries which should be usable for experimenting in Flash 10 with. <br><br><br><br>