Hi Alex, please reply to all recipients - see http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-list.html
. I'm CCing the list. On Tue, 9 May 2017 11:17:08 +1000 Alex Bell <afjb...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Thanks, Shlomi. The problem is fixed. > Great! You're welcome. > But I have had so many responses and am a new member of the group, so I > need to ask - it is customary to respond to every reply? > You can make a single reply thanking everyone who responded. > Regards, Alex > > On 8/05/2017 6:54 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Alex! > > > > On Mon, 8 May 2017 18:11:20 +1000 > > Alex Bell <afjb...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > > >> I'm afraid I have minimal knowledge of GIMP; I only use it to design > >> simple covers for the ebooks I design for the free ebook library at > >> www.mobileread.com. > >> > >> The ebook I'm about to start working on is 'The Adventures of Elizabeth > >> in Rügen'. As you can see the u in Rügen has an umlaut, but I can't work > >> out how to produce that with GIMP. The text is white on a black > >> background, so I can't make an image of the text and use that. > >> > >> Can anyone tell me how to put diacritics in text? > >> > > > > I have no problem inserting a "ü" using my compose key in GIMP (fedora 26 > > x86-64). See: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/images/gimp--text-with-unicode-u-umlaut.png > > > > GIMP should support many unicode codepoints given font support. Try using a > > compose key or pasting the text into the GIMP text tool. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shlomi > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Processing Tools - http://shlom.in/text-proc <Botje> Khisanth =~ s/must sleep/must give Botje all my money/ . — Freenode’s #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
