Special Characters

**upro** · 09 October 2007, 03:19 PM

Hi!

I need to compose the French "C" wioth cedille in a document in XaraLX on Linux. Thise seems to be quite difficult - I have not found a way to do it.

Can someone point me to a way to type special characters?

Thanks in advance!

Upro

**fcoiffie** · 09 October 2007, 05:36 PM

I have tried with XaraLX and my french keyboard and it works.
Maybe you shoud look how to make 'ç' on Linux with a non-french keyboard...

**upro** · 09 October 2007, 05:52 PM

Most programs have a"inser special character" dialogue...

Xara apparently is suitable for users who don't use them...

**con** · 10 October 2007, 06:19 AM

If you are using KDE theres a small program that lets you switch keybord layouts. This ofcourse demands that you know where the character is on the keyboard and that the fonts youre using support it.

I really wish someone would implement copy&paste of text soon..... its a pain to write lorem ipsum type text for webprojects and such.

**upro** · 10 October 2007, 08:08 AM

I completely agrree - enable copy/paste would help a LOT!!!

regards,

upro

**victor_charlie** · 16 November 2007, 08:21 PM

My work-around was to make a copy of a font using FontForge (opensource software). I have a Cooper-Black and a Cooper-Black_x. The _x has accented characters in place of the normal keyboard equivalents. I also use FontyPython to manage these fonts in font-work folders.

The other workaround is: have a French (or Russian, or German, or whatever) send you a .xar file with a line of text of the special characters. That will cut and paste between xara graphic pages. In the pasted document, you can then change font, sizes and so forth.

**ss-kalm** · 18 November 2007, 01:57 AM

Con and Upro,

'Lorem Ipsum' text can be entered in blocks by using CTRL-SHIFT-L repeatedly until you have filled the relevant block ....... Also I don't know what you mean about "implement copy & paste of text soon" text does copy and paste quite readily. Using right click menu or using the windows standard CTRL-C and CTRL-V. How can it be made any easier?

**Soquili** · 18 November 2007, 02:19 AM

Keith, the Ctrl+Shift+L only works in the Windows Xara Xtreme Pro version. It does not work with the Linux version at this time.

**ss-kalm** · 18 November 2007, 07:45 PM

Apologies, again - keep forgetting that the Windows and linux versions are that different ...

Sorry!

**Soquili** · 18 November 2007, 11:45 PM

Keith the Linux version is still in developmental status. It is currently at version 0.7 which lacks features that a version 1.0 would have working.

I understand that the original plan in 2005 was to have XtremeLX feature set the same as Windows Xara Xtreme by the time the linux version became 1.0.