On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 04:08, kavec at messi.uku.fi wrote: > 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
Yes, they are different and not accessible directly via the keyboard. Wingdings from the MS Web font collection is the same. Peter
