[scribus] line spacing
Louis Desjardins
louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com
Mon Jul 28 13:58:06 CEST 2008
Pierre Marchand a écrit :
> Vous (Louis Desjardins) avez écrit :
>> I assume you ask how to access those characters. Right?
>>
>> Insert > Glyph will pop up a dialog where you can pick any of the
>> available glyphs for the font you are using.
>
> Not exactly. I’ve just checked the english menu item and it is misleading, it
> should be labelled "Insert>Character" since Scribus inspects _only_ the
> Unicode characters map of the font to find glyphs. It means that you won’t be
> able to insert glyphs such as small caps, old style figures, etc. with fonts
> which have not register these glyphs into PUA or other tricks (it’s not
> unusual with modern OTF fonts where large range of glyphs are expected to be
> accessed by setting font features).
Merci Pierre!
Your explanation is more than interesting and in fact you are right, the
menu is misleading. Would you like to file a bug for this? Also, there
should be a warning in the tooltip so users know what to expect and what
not.
Louis
>
> Another tip: you can insert characters by [F12]>UUUU where "UUUU" is an
> unicode code point in hexadecimal.
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