Hi Alex!

On Mon, 8 May 2017 18:11:20 +1000 Alex Bell 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

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 use linux, and compose key works very well, Windows has a ctrl-key + numberpad equivalent.

However not many Windows users these days use that, so the alternative.

Look for the windows character map and copy/paste into Wordpad screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pB9E7vl.jpg

Then when finished copy the whole of the text.

In Gimp Text tool options enable "Use Editor" and paste the text in screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/K0Mq3tl.jpg

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Alex Bell wrote:

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?

Copy the word Rügen from your web browser and paste it into the text box?

Alex

On 05/08/2017 10:11:20 AM, Alex Bell 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 Rgen'. As you can see the u in Rgen 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?

Hi Alex,

I don't see your problem. If you have a keyboard with German umlauts then just enter the character like in Gimp's Texttool ( 'A' in the toolbox).

If you have a US keyboard you can enter the following lines into your $HOME/.Xmodmap

keycode 135 = Mode_switch keycode 116 = Down
keycode 117 = Next

! For KEYSYMNAME see /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h ! A
keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis ! O
keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis ! S
keycode 39 = s S ssharp ssharp
! U
keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis ! E + accent
keycode 26 = e E eacute egrave

and in $HOME/.xinitrc add the following lines

xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap

# disable autorepeat for the Mode_switch key xset -r 135

Now, if you press the 'Menu key' (left to the left key) together with () A, O, S or U
you get the German umlaut characters or the German character. You can try this within an XTerm.

Use Unicode characters. Various language code tables can be found below.

From Techwalla:

"Select "Use Editor" in the GIMP toolbox to display the text editor and then press "Ctrl," "Shift" and "U" to enable direct Unicode entry. The text editor displays a "u" to represent a Unicode character. Insert the symbol by typing its Unicode value in the window and pressing "Enter.""

Unicode from unicode-table.com:

https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/general-punctuation/ "General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic and novel punctuation such as the interobang, and invisible mathematical operators."

Rick S.

-----Original Message----- From: Alex Bell
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 4:11 AM
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] How do I put diacritics in text?

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?

Regards, Alex
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
Frederick Douglass

You want the "Latin-1 supplement": https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/latin-1-supplement/

Rick S.

Hi Alex,

please reply to all recipients - see http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-list.html

. I'm CCing the list.

On Tue, 9 May 2017 11:17:08 +1000 Alex Bell 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 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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