Hi Craig, >> Hi all, >> >> one of the features in scribus 1.3 that nearly blew me away, was the >> opportunity to insert many important typographical characters from the >> drop down menu. That's fantastic. > > More to come when I get a chance in the 1.3.1cvs time period. These will also > appear in the Story Editor's menu too when I rewrite the SE menu system.
Great!!! >> However, in terms of usability, some visual examples, at least for >> printing characters, would be worth adding. This will speed up >> productivity, especially for beginners. > > The problem is we rely on the glyph existing in the font used by the GUI, > which is usually different to the one used in the text frame. They are > disabled if the font in the frame doesnt have them. Would be possible to > detect the ones from the GUI font, however Scribus may not even know about > that font... hmm. Wouldn't it be possible to use icons instead? Christoph
