thanks for your time responding - sorry about the blank lines - difficulty of copying from an X11 window - it looked ok in Mail
The output from Inkscape (first line is typing the alphabet in caps, second in lower case) is :
If there is nothing on the above two lines, this email should have an attachment 'allgreek2me.png' with the intended output.
So A = cap pi, B = lc pi, C=cap roe, D=lc roe E=cap sigma, F=lc sigma etc. Interestingly, no alpha, beta, gamma ......
I appreciate your point regarding X11 keyboard setting v/s Mac, but it would be nice to have the Greek print as it should since it is 'available' as a menu option.
I'll do some more research and maybe I can figure out a fix ~
Stu
On Apr 4, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Daniel Hulme wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:06:42PM -0400, Stuart Edwards wrote:
OSX 10.5.2 Inkscape 0.46 Intel Mac
In trying to insert greek letters into a graphic I found that there appears to be a common problem with the mapping of each of the three WP Greek fonts.
It is (if I understand you correctly) the mapping working as intended. In a font with Greek glyphs, the Greek glyphs are in addition to, not instead of, the usual Latin characters. When you switch your keyboard setting to Greek, MacOS interprets your keypresses as Greek letters and inserts the appropriate character numbers for Greek letters, which the Greek font then displays with Greek glyphs. It would do the same even for a font without Greek glyphs, and the letters would be the same in the file, they just wouldn't show up correctly when displaying the file.
But X has its own keyboard setting, and its own way(s) of allowing you to enter characters your keyboard doesn't have. I'm not a Mac user, so I'm afraid I don't know how to set this up on a Mac, but Googling for {X input method Mac} should get you started. (Or maybe one of the Mac users on the list will be able to help you out.)
For example, the alphabet in WP Greek Century types as follows (lower then upper case):
I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve, but your mail just had two blank lines.
In NeoOffice, it looks like this:
ΑΒΨΔΕΦΓΗΙΞΚΛΜΝΟΠ;ΡΣΤΘΩΣΧΥΖ αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ
Note that it is necessary to switch from US to Greek keyboard to get the Greek characters when using NeoOffice regardless of the fact that WP Greek Century is the selected font.
Indeed. The choice of font is irrelevant to how keystrokes are interpreted; it just affects what the characters look like.
This switch is not possible for Inkscape since it is running in X11.
Well, unless it is something specific to X on Mac, it is possible, but with Input Methods it is unnecessary.
For now, you could install gucharmap, which is a bit like the Windows Character Map programme, but far superior. Good luck getting this sorted out.
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