Thanks, Greg-- I have discovered some of that on my own. In general, I am comfortable with Latex for math and Greek symbols. EK
On 11/04/2010 12:36 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 11/04/2010 11:29 AM, ehud.kaplan at gmail.com wrote: >> Yes, I am an old LaTeX/Lyx user. In fact, I wish Scribus could import >> Lyx files. >> BTW-- I find that the font quality of the resulting pdf is not great, >> unless I use the EXPERIMENTAL feature of embedding pdf & eps. > > It's worth noting that you can directly enter Unicode values for any > glyphs that are supported by the font that you are using. > This works with either the Story Editor or Edit Contents mode. > > Beginning with 1.3.5, the keyboard shortcut for entering Unicode > values is Ctrl+Shift+U, after which you type the 4-digit hex code, and > for example, this is 03b1 for lower case Greek alpha. If you find your > way to the Character Palette by way of Insert > Glyph, the Unicode > value will show in a tooltip on mouse over. Don't type the '0x' at the > beginning, just what comes after. > > So if you make a list of the Greek and other glyphs you want to use > with their Unicodes, this makes for much quicker editing for small > numbers of these letters. It also allows you to play with Book vs Bold > vs Italic vs whatever style. > > It would be nice to be able to easily use Search/Replace to replace > some private code (like \a for Greek alpha), but unfortunately, you > cannot enter a Unicode value in the Search/Replace dialog. It's a bit > cumbersome, but you can copy a glyph like Greek alpha, then paste it > in the Search/Replace dialog. Might be useful for a large number of > glyphs of a limited kind. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101104/1e1e3c2c/attachment.htm>
