On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 19:54, George Hail wrote: > Thanks for the help Bart. Running mkfontscale and mkfontdir on my .fonts > directory fixed the problem. I did not find this to be clear in the > documentation. It is mentioned in the "Notes on Running Scribus 0.8+ under > Redhat 8.0", but only under the section dealing with Xft1. Since Redhat > uses Xft2, I did not realize that they were needed with the default Redhat 9 > setup. On another note, am I correct in assuming that scribus does not > support em dashes, or have I not read the correct documentation?
Support for em-dashes is dependent on the font. For example, the new Bitstream Vera Mono Medium has em dashes accessible in Scribus but not Bold, or at least I could not find it where I expected it. I should be more emphatic to explain that support for "old" Xft1 style font configuration is still required for a great number of apps not only Scribus, but Open Office, Mozilla unless specifically built to support Xft2 etc. This concept was implied, but I will make some changes in the wording based on your comments for the next version. Moreover, I can tell you the current cvs version of Scribus has a whole bunch of new font handling stuff via freetype, which was never fully exploited before. Without spilling the beans, it will add many of the font encoding/usage features users have been asking for on the list. It is a very impressive addition Franz has done and will make Scribus much more capable to handle non ISO-8859-1 text. Hope that helps, Peter
