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Development => Features => Topic started by: bobsteamer on January 10, 2014, 03:57:38 PM

Title: New Feature Needed for Floating Accents
Post by: bobsteamer on January 10, 2014, 03:57:38 PM
I would like to use Scribus with fonts that contain floating accents.

I have found that the "A|V" function will move the Glyph correctly horizontally.

Unfortunately I haven't found a similar command to move a Glyph vertically.

This feature will be essential for high quality Arabic.
Title: Re: New Feature Needed for Floating Accents
Post by: mnawij on January 17, 2014, 06:28:16 AM
bobsteamer,

The box directly to the left of A/V (manual tracking) is baseline shift.  This should move the glyph vertical, I usually start at 25%+...  You need to select/highlight the glyph(s)/letter(s) that you would like to move first.  I have tried it with letters/glyphs/special characters in the Arial font, hope this helps and is what you were looking for?
Title: Re: New Feature Needed for Floating Accents
Post by: bobsteamer on January 23, 2014, 01:16:39 PM
 mnawij,

On my version (Windows 1.4.3) this box is the Shadow feature and only moves the shadow - the main glyph doesn't move :(
Title: Re: New Feature Needed for Floating Accents
Post by: Nermander on January 23, 2014, 02:25:32 PM
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:Manual_Textframes#Advanced_Settings
Title: Re: New Feature Needed for Floating Accents
Post by: bobsteamer on January 30, 2014, 09:32:01 AM
Eventually found it - many thanks  :)