Hi Owen, At the moment I use RagTime (a German Page layout program) which is somewhat idosyncratic at times, quite complex and does not have quite such an appealing Graphics User Interface as Scribus.
I use Pages '09 (Apples iWork suite) for general word processing. I use Illustrator and Photoshop extensively, for the production of scientific graphics. All these applications allow me to use (and have so done for decades, in previous incarnations) Symbol font and Zapf Dingbats. I cannot comprehend why Scribus allows me to have both these fonts on its font list, but that they just do not work at all. I could sort of understand if Scribus did not use them so did not show them. Also, with respect to the fonts list, it is really nice to have DTP and allied software present you with a list of "just those fonts" you normally use. Then (as with Illustrator, for example) you don't have to scroll through the entire several hundred (or whatever it is) to reach the one you want, when you make font changes in a document. Scribus allows this but, annoyingly - at least as far as I can see - there is no way you can "deselect all" then select the half-dozen you would ever work with. So I spent quite a while happily setting up my preferences before discovering that two fonts of the half-dozen, for the first time ever, just would not work. Incidentally, I am of the view that there has hardly been a significant true innovation in all the "upgrades" of Illustrator and Photoshop that I have owned and paid for over at least two decades. If I could find an OpenSource equivalent to these applications I would change today. It is a project (finding them) that I am currently engaged on. This is why I am so saddened with the Scribus situation. It looks and feels really great but it just don't cut the mustard. Finally: No, I do not have LaTex. I have known about it for some fifteen years. My French engineering friends swore by it, but it always seemed too complex for my purposes. Instead, I used MathType which either had to be bought or was bundled into AppleScript. I shall go and see what I can find in the way of LaTex software now. Many thanks Rodney On 23 Aug 2009, at 11:34, Owen wrote: > > >> The Symbol font will not display; Zapf Dingbats will not display; >> Render Frame will not work (). Latex/Tex is not working/ >> available .... >> >> I am a technical author. I need to set Greek symbols within lines of >> ordinary text. I need to set mathematical formulae. > > > > If latex/TeX is not available, why? > > Do you have latex etc installed > > can you produce documents in Latex? > > If you have latex, I suggest you use that for the time being. it also > has the advantage of making footnotes and reference list. > > Do your fonts display in Open office or whatever document editor you > are using? > > > -- > > > > Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus Professor Rodney Coates, Ph.D., FIEEE Seiche Ltd. Swallow Court Trefor Holyhead Anglesey LL65 4TA +44 (0)1407 720 474 Mobile: 0787645020 rcoates at seiche.com www.seiche.com
