On Sunday 05 June 2005 18:14, Digital Unleashed wrote:
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 16:22, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
I know that Inkscape differs from InDesign _a lot_, but the thing I like about ID is that its text frame's pop-up menu has a couple of submenus for inserting special characters like (C), (R), and different types of quotation marks. Scribus (1.3cvs) has such submenus now as well, but in main application's menu Insert.
Would it be a good idea to add such a functionality to Inkscape?
I don't speak for anyone on the Inkscape team, but personally, I'd rather not see this in Inkscape. Your OS almost certainly already provides that feature. And, since international unicode character sets consist of tens of thousands of characters, any attempt by inkscape to reproduce that functionality would be very limited by comparison.
Have a look around your OS for a "character selection" utility, or something similar. Also, if you're using X windows, lookup the details for xmodmap, which will let you map copyright to AltGr-c or whatever key you want.
Simply, your OS will lie to you.
Yes. Many will do auto glyph substitution which you certainly DO NOT want in DTP (they will often show more glyphs than are available within a certain font file). Many are too complicated and the interfaces are inconsistent with the application, especially across platform.
For these reasons, Scribus has its own Insert Glyph dialog which Scribus itself generates from freetype information (as we do not rely on anything other than freetype and the font files themselves).
DTP programs typically ALSO have a standard set of (C), (R), TM, spacing, quoting etc glyphs on a menu because its a handy way to get at these characters without searching through an Insert Glyph dialog that can contain thousands of characters.
The amount of requests for this we have for what we have now in Scribus has been quite high over time, hence its now in 1.3.0cvs.
Also, The ISO 14755 *suggests* Control-Shift for insertion of unicode chars. I know that GTK2 supports this, but I havent tested it with Inkscape yet.
While Inkscape isnt a DTP program as such, it can be used for that, and it is certainly used in conjunction with apps like Scribus.
Craig Scribus Team