Re: RTF in the canvas?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

>  If all complex features like tables and probably nested lists and even pics
> are needed, I would suggest to use html as layout description language - it's
> almost as rich as RTF, but humanly readable and may be already
> partially supported by existing components like gtkhtml or gecko.

Well, what we need is a powerful canvas item.  See many projects could
use something like this, and there is no point in having them
implement their own if we can fullfill this need for them.

So we are looking at here at the engine that something like Achtung
could use. 

Miguel.