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#1
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by Nermander - Today at 05:43:50 PM
Quote from: pierruel on Today at 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.
#2
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by utnik - Today at 05:17:58 PM
hi pierruel

Quote from: pierruel on Today at 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
#3
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - Today at 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.
#4
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - Today at 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
#5
General Discussion / text center
Last post by keko1963 - Today at 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?
#6
Text and Typography / Re: Variable Fonts only showin...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 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.
#7
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by MrB - Today at 12:10:11 AM
Just set Arial as the font for your text frame or text style, or one of the other standard Microsoft fonts should be ok. At least you will get the right results for now while you select a different font based on your preference.
Unless you have older documents to use, I strongly suggest installing Scribus 1.6.1. You can have both installed.
#8
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by pierruel - May 14, 2024, 11:39:30 PM
Hi!
I'm under Windows 11 Family with Scribus 1.4.8. I remember now that several of these mentioned Fonts folder were associated with GIMP and others with a video software. I can try and print the listing of the  FreeCommander output and look if one or more Fonts folder are associated with Scribus. I'll let you know.
Regards
pierruel
#9
Text and Typography / Re: Variable Fonts only showin...
Last post by hebrides - May 14, 2024, 11:38:06 PM
Yes, will do.

For myself I've found a workaround. I'd downloaded the files from Google Fonts, which gives you just one .ttf file for all the uprights and one for all the italics. So instead I went to Github, where they give you one .ttf file per weight. (Source Sans 3 and Montserrat were the fonts I was after.) Downloaded those, put them in a folder, pointed Scribus at it: sorted.

Still, that is essentially just de-variabling the fonts! I'll file the bug report.
#10
Text and Typography / Re: Insetring an ancient greek...
Last post by MrB - May 14, 2024, 10:23:02 PM
I'm not sure where the issue is. What operating system are you using and what version of Scribus? I can copy your text into a text frame in 1.6.2.svn and 1.7.0.svn and its fine, with font set to Arial as an example.