Pierre Marchand a ?crit : > Vous (Louis Desjardins) avez ?crit : >> I assume you ask how to access those characters. Right? >> >> Insert > Glyph will pop up a dialog where you can pick any of the >> available glyphs for the font you are using. > > Not exactly. I?ve just checked the english menu item and it is misleading, it > should be labelled "Insert>Character" since Scribus inspects _only_ the > Unicode characters map of the font to find glyphs. It means that you won?t be > able to insert glyphs such as small caps, old style figures, etc. with fonts > which have not register these glyphs into PUA or other tricks (it?s not > unusual with modern OTF fonts where large range of glyphs are expected to be > accessed by setting font features).
Merci Pierre! Your explanation is more than interesting and in fact you are right, the menu is misleading. Would you like to file a bug for this? Also, there should be a warning in the tooltip so users know what to expect and what not. Louis > > Another tip: you can insert characters by [F12]>UUUU where "UUUU" is an > unicode code point in hexadecimal.
