>I'm afraid I have minimal knowledge of GIMP; I only use it to design 
>simple covers for the ebooks I design for the free ebook library at 
>www.mobileread.com.
>
>The ebook I'm about to start working on is 'The Adventures of
>Elizabeth
>in Rügen'. As you can see the u in Rügen has an umlaut, but I can't
>work
>out how to produce that with GIMP. The text is white on a black 
>background, so I can't make an image of the text and use that.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to put diacritics in text?

I use linux, and compose key works very well, Windows has a ctrl-key + numberpad
equivalent.

However not many Windows users these days use that, so the alternative.

Look for the windows character map and copy/paste into Wordpad screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/pB9E7vl.jpg

Then when finished copy the whole of the text.

In Gimp Text tool options enable "Use Editor" and paste the text in screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/K0Mq3tl.jpg

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