On Friday, June 03, 2011 06:27:21 am JLuc wrote: > Le 02/06/2011 23:32, sinead ward a ?crit : > > Hello all! > > I am completely new to the list, having just discovered scribus this > > evening. The software looks great and I'm hoping to be able to use it to > > create a newspaper all going well. One thing I would just like to be > > sure about though is if > > > > I can write this character (like the French accent grave) as in ?????. > > (that is the upwards moving line used on vowels). This is actually > > called a 'fada' in the Irish language and is used very often in Irish > > so it's critical I can use it. > > Hello Sinead, > > I'm glad to discover that 'fada' glyph. In the southern french dialect, > fada means 'nicely crazy'. :-) > > But for your own information, and for those who have continued with this, > the accent here is not 'grave' but 'aigu'. Aigu means 'acute' as in html : > è is ? > é is ? with the upwards moving line as you mentionned. > > JLuc
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