Re: [Gimp-user] How do I put diacritics in text?

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Alex,

please reply to all recipients - see
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On Tue, 9 May 2017 11:17:08 +1000 Alex Bell <afjbell bigpond net au> wrote:

> Thanks, Shlomi. The problem is fixed.

Great! You're welcome.
 
> But I have had so many responses and am a new member of the group, so I 
> need to ask - it is customary to respond to every reply?

You can make a single reply thanking everyone who responded.

> Regards, Alex
>
> On 8/05/2017 6:54 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi Alex!
> >
> > On Mon, 8 May 2017 18:11:20 +1000
> > Alex Bell <afjbell bigpond net au> wrote:
> >   
> > > 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 have no problem inserting a "ü" using my compose key in GIMP (fedora 26
> > x86-64). See:
> >
> > http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/images/gimp--text-with-unicode-u-umlaut.png
> >
> > GIMP should support many unicode codepoints given font support. Try using a
> > compose key or pasting the text into the GIMP text tool.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >     Shlomi
> >   



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