Quoting Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>: > kavec at messi.uku.fi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I really like Scribus and would like to use it to prepare my > (scientific) > > presentations and posters. For that I very often use Symbols font. > > > > I downloaded the latest version of urw fonts and added the font path > to it in > > Scribus-1.1.6. I put a text frame in a plain A4 page and try to use > "Standard > > symbols L regular" font, but no characters appear while typing. The > rest of theo > > Do you have a keyboard with keys for the symbols? What characters do you > > expect to appear? Some of them may be accessible via the Alt or AltGr > modifier key, but in general the encoding is sufficiently different so > > that they are not accessible from a standard keyboard. > > > fonts from the library works fine, except Dingbats and Symbols, but I > am the > > most concerned of Symbols. > > If you open Extras->Insert Special, do you see the symbols? If yes, you > > can insert them from there.
Fantastic! Extras->Insert Special works. Thanks for advice. I'm just curious. Is Symbols font in any way different from the fonts such as Times or Palatino that I can not just select it and type alfa, beta, delta ... This is how it works with Symbols in OpenOffice or KDE. Thanks again. Martin
