[scribus] Glyphs in a font not appearing

[Craig Bradney]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:56:20 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo:
>
>   
>> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>     
>>> 1.3.5 Rc2, Jaunty x86_64
>>>
>>> Just now I tried to type U2205 U2192 in the Story Editor using the
>>> Junicode font. The characters appeared fine in Story Editor, which is
>>> set to display text with Junicode. They also appear fine in all other
>>> applications. When I closed Story Editor and updated the text frame the
>>> characters were gone. I tried to enter them directly in the text frame,
>>> but they did not appear. Then I tried inserting them with Insert >
>>> Glyph, but the Glyph palette did not display these characters.
>>>
>>> Why does Scribus not see characters that are clearly in the font?
>>> Should I file a bug report? Can someone reproduce this? Am I crazy? OK,
>>> forget the last question.
>>>       
>
>   
>> While your Story Editor font may contain these characters, apparently 
>> the font for the frame does not.
>>     
>
> It's the same font.
>   
Not necessarily.

The font's missing glyphs may be copied from another font or auto
generated for the GUI. Scribus will not do that.

Craig