Re: [Gimp-user] Text with accents

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop ntlworld com>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 23:10 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> >
> >
> > please see my earlier reply to Patrick - the accented letters that
> > did not work are definitely in FreeSans, I think the difference is
> > that I access them via keys mapped as some-dead-accent + letter.
>
> OK. So if you paste them into GIMP they work? Or if you click on "use
> text editor" in the tool options dialogue when text is active, do they
> work in the tool editor?

Will try those at some point - might take a while, other things are
in the way.  I'd forgotten about the editor option and I didn't have
examples of the accented letters anywhere handy - that's the
benefit, for me, of setting up my own keymap: I can remember how to
get most of the accents (strictly, diacriticals) I use.

> > Unfortunately I keep losing the ability to paint with any brush.
>
> When you click on the image with a brush, what happens exactly?

Nothing.

Specifically - I clicked on one pixel with the current colour and
pasted that ok, then as in the previous changes of colour I used the
eyedropper to select a different colour, back to tools->paint
tools->paintbrush and after that the last time nothing got changed.

> When you drag, what happens?

I've not been dragging - for tiny text itself there is no benefit to
dragging, for lines I tend to get a lot more spill (e.g. above or
below the line for a horizontal line, usually with a faint version
of the selected white or blue).  I did try vertical drags
over two pixels when adding the umlauts, but again there was spill
and no space to let it go - lowercase 'o' is something like 6 pixels
by 6 pixels on the least-small of the sizes I'm trying.

> In tool options for the paintbrush, is the Mode (at the top) set to
> Normal?
>
> Just below the Mode, is Opacity set to 100% ? Are Brush Dynamics set to
> Off?
>
> Make sure also that Anti erase, near the bottom of tool options, is not
> selected. Pressing the Alt key will also choose anti-erase. This
> "paints" by removing transparency from the current layer.

Will need to check.

> Are you using a graphics tablet and stylus?

No, plain mouse with 2 buttons and wheel.  Drawing like this is
something I very rarely do.

> Modifier keys like caps lock can sometimes make a difference too.
>
> slave liam

I've set caps lock as my Compose key, but I don't think I was using
keys.  Maybe I used Alt-F1 to go to my desktop which has firefox
open (icewm, gimp is on desktop3) to take a break or check email, or
Alt-F3 to come back, but I think I just used the mouse to switch
desktops.

Thanks for all these details.

ĸen
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