[scribus] using symbols like ', ^, ~

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:42:36 -0400
John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> dijo:

>On Friday 02 April 2010 20:15:43 Owen wrote:
>> > Submitted on 04/03/2010
>> > Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.6.26]
>> >
>> > Submitted values are:
>> >
>> >    Your contact information:
>> >      Name: Gustavo Nicodemo
>> >      Email Address: lgnicodemo at hotmail.com
>> >    Your request content:
>> >      Subject: using symbols like ', ^, ~
>> >      Message:
>> > I can't use symbols like "~", very used in portuguese writing. To
>> > obtain
>> > "ã", for example, usually just need to press '~' and 'a'. Doing
>> > this I'm
>> > obtaining "~a" in Scribus.  What I need to do to obtain "ã"?.
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> In the Story editor,
>>
>> Insert->Insert Glyph (the character palette will appear)
>>
>> Then click on the left hand icon, and select the character from the
>> "Enhanced character palette"
>>
>> (The glyph needs to be in your font, but I guess your font has that
>> glyph)
>
>This is not as handy as the multiple key sequences as found in e.g.,
>TeX. Finding the correct accented form of the letter in the proper
>case is  abit like finding a needle in a haystack. 

I assumed at the beginning of this discussion that the original poster
was in Portugal or Brazil or someplace where Portuguese is the main
language. If so, then he would have a Portuguese keyboard selected in
his operating system (Ubuntu). Therefore, he has dead keys to create
the diacritics used by Portuguese. If these are not working in Scribus,
then something is wrong. Does Scribus not support Portuguese?

Then again, maybe I completely misunderstood the situation.