[Scribus] Font question

Mark Nowiasz buckaroo
Tue Jan 24 22:20:23 CET 2006


Am Mittwoch, den 25.01.2006, 05:10 +0800 schrieb Craig Ringer:

> Currently, not as far as I know.

Good to know that I'm not to stupid to find this :-)

> It'd be an interesting option for the app to support though - manual 
> glyph substitution tables (with, perhaps, some basic & obvious ones 
> pre-configured?) for commonly omitted symbols.
> 
> Rather than a manual table, another approach might be to just inform the 
> user "the glyph for <blah> is missing from this font" and give them a 
> list of other glyphs to pick from, with a "remember this choice for this 
> document" option.

Yes, indeed - this would make a great feature. Not only for things like
euro symbol, but for "foreign" alphabets (imagine a western Text
occasionally using Greek or Cyrillic characters: From alpha to omega..).
Switching fonts is really tedious work.

Cheers,
Mark
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
		-- Kin Hubbard





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