Special Characters

[upro]

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]

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]

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

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

[con]

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]

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

regards,

upro

[victor_charlie]

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.