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Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - Today at 07:56:54 AM
Thanks and congratulations for all these rich comments (and rectifications). I learned much these days about typography (although I worked years in advertising prints).
Best regards
pierruel
#3
General Discussion / Re: text center
Last post by AdmFubar - May 15, 2024, 10:54:53 PM
Text Properties Tab/Columns & Text Distances, first entry is Vertical Alignment
#4
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by MrB - May 15, 2024, 08:56:20 PM
I opened "Bodoni 72" which was already installed on my Mac.. The "Font Book" application on Mac shows the known supported languages. Greek is not one of them. Now, I must have received this font through Mac OS installation.. but I cannot say how it relates to the source of yours on Windows. Either way, it looks like neither contain Greek letters.
#5
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by Nermander - May 15, 2024, 05:43:50 PM
Quote from: pierruel on May 15, 2024, 04:39:08 PMAt the beginning mine was in Bodoni and I got just empty squares.

That just means the Bodini font does not contain greek glyphs.

Many fonts are "incomplete" in the sense that they do not contain all glyphs from unicode.

I am not sure if there is an easy way to see how many glyphs are missing from a font...

Googling a bit I mostly found scripts for Indesign to check fonts, but this text can be used to at least check for some glyph sets
https://gist.github.com/seriema/642de9f05aea68e1b96b

Just copy into a text frame and try different fonts I guess.
#6
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by utnik - May 15, 2024, 05:17:58 PM
hi pierruel

Quote from: pierruel on May 15, 2024, 04:39:08 PM...the "containing" text must be in Arial or other standard Microsoft font.
to be correct: there is no need for a microsoft font. but the used font should contain the greek glyphs. (as most of my standard fonts do...)

utnik
#7
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - May 15, 2024, 04:39:08 PM
Hello everybody, in particular MrB
I couldn't be more sorry ! As my father used to say I was "using a hoist to lift a gram".
It was as simple as this:
1. Type the French (or English, German...) text into a text frame (in Arial for instance)
2. Click on amend (modify) the text
3. Switch your keyboard to EL (ellinika)
4. Insert (type) the greek quote at the correct place in the "latin" text.
Done ! It's perfect on the screen, perfect on the paper.
Many thanks to everybody who helped me.
Best regards
pierruel
P.S. Important addition: as MrB  wrote, the "containing" text must be in Arial or other standard Microsoft font. At the beginning mine was in Bodoni and I got just empty squares.
#8
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - May 15, 2024, 03:46:11 PM
Many thanks, MrB.
I'me very grateful that a member of the Scribus Team show interest for my modest issue. I'm not sure to understand clearly what you mean in your last post. At that stage I would like to say two points.
First, it's important to show the result I would like to obtain in Scribus (while it's easy to do with Office), i.e. the following sentence in French containing a Greek quote:

"C'est bien, persévère, μουσικὴν ποίει καὶ ἐργάζου, comme le songe disait à Socrate."

2nd, I search again my PC with FreeCommander for the word Fonts and got an output of more than 4000 (4 thousands) lines among them I picked up 51 mentioning Scribus but I wasn't able to open any greek folder among them, I just noticed that greek is refered as "el" (for ellinika) to.
Among a series of .html files I found an article about adding a new font path to Scribus' fonts manager but I still don't know where I can find a greek font (in addition a number or files found by FreeCommander don't appear in my File Manager display).

I'll certainly install version 1.6.1 and make the test you suggest with Arial but in my Scribus document the greek quotation was inserted into a standard font usable in Microsoft documents and didn't appear in Scribus.  In the meantime an advice about finding the font folder containing greek characters would be strongly appreciated.
Sorry for my almost English writing !
Best regards
pierruel
#9
General Discussion / text center
Last post by keko1963 - May 15, 2024, 02:09:13 PM
In Scribus, I created a table with 2 rows and 10 cells each. In the bottom row, I need to write one letter in each cell, centered in the middle of the cell. The only alignment option I found centers the letter in the middle of the row, but the letter touches the line of the cell and is not in the middle of the cell. This alignment only aligns the letter or text in that row where the text is written. I can't find an option to align to the center of the cell, as is possible in Excel. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this?
#10
Text and Typography / Re: Variable Fonts only showin...
Last post by a.l.e - May 15, 2024, 08:51:06 AM
as far as i can tell, you have all the fonts weights also on google fonts.
they are in a sub folder.