Comment 8 for bug 171141

I also would like to add a bit more weight to the question of text formatting. I use Inkscape regularly for generating schematic drawings or scientific posters (comparable to bug #171498 (sf1553935)). My colleagues usually take CorelDraw since it has been used ever since the foundation of our institute. I think Inkscape is much more powerful in drawing capabilities than Corel or at least the handling is much more intuitive. But I have to admit that the text formatting is much more advanced in Corel. As long as this is the case there is no chance that I could convince my colleagues to switch to Inkscape also.

I tried the 0.46pre0 release and hoped that the text tool had improved but the changes to that during last years Google SoC were obviously more internal. Is there a chance that the text edit capabilities improve in the next version? I would code it myself but unfortunately I am not able to and I don't have the time to learn it.

My wishes to text editing would be (just in consent with the others):
- generating tab stops (either global in page coordinates or local within each text box): left, centered, right
- numbered or bulleted lists (the input of special characters via unicode works fine but is too complex for day-to-day use)
- superscript and subscript
- paragraphs with more than one column

If it's not to ungrateful I would hope for something comparable to the Corel text tools. Nevertheless - you are doing great work!!! Thank you all for that!