On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:58, Bruce R. Miller wrote: > I have been asked to edit and ``typeset" an eight-page > newsletter for a volunteer organization --- within the > next 36 hours! The previous editor (moved to another > city) used Microsoft Publisher. I do not want to use > that, but this is literally learning Scribus ``on the > fly". > > With apologies for not doing the work myself to find > the information, can someone point me to any > documentation on: > (1) how to insert common ``typographical" symbols into > plain text files, e.g. endash, emdash, typograthic > apostrophes and quotation marks, bullets (ugh) and the > like. > (2) given where I live in Canada, the newsletter has > to contain a mixture of English- and French-language > content. My French text displays fine in kvim but not > with cat or less at the command line. > Can someone point me to the hoops I must go through to > ensure correct printing of French accented letters. > > Once again, my apologies to all for asking for help > rather than finding the information myself. I am under > intense time pressure and allowed myself only a rapid > look through the Scribus online documentation. > > I hope to reach a point to offer back; until then, > thanks in advance. > > Bruce Miller > Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
As far as the French accents go I am using SUSE 9.1 pro and using Control Center>Regional & Accesibility>Keyboard Layout I have set up US English and US English with deadkeys. You can switch by clicking the symbol in the taskbar. This allows you to click on say ' which at first does nothing, then when you type e you get ? and so on. Little bit clunky but works if you haven got too much French. P.S. Thanks to those people on the list who helped me find this out. Graham
