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impossible to produce greek symbol on mac os 10.5 and 10.6 with version 0.47

Asked by micolau

On Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger), with inkscape ver 0.46, It is possible writing (in text mode) greek letters.
It is very useful for scientific figures (alpha, omega, etc...).

I've installed Inkscape ver 0.47 on mac os X 10.5 and 10.6 (leopard and snow leopard).
The font 'symbol' does not appear in the font window when typing text.
It is impossible to produce such symbols.

I don't know how to simply write 'alpha' or 'beta' or something like that.

I need help...

Thanks

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Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz) said : 		#1

Generally you can just type the characters using standard OS X mechanisms. Be aware, though, that most fonts need to have Unicode mappings to be reliably supported.

You can pick a checkbox in the keyboard control panel to have a item in the menu. Clicking on that can allow a keyboard viewer to appear.

Among other things that shows me that on my US laptop layout I can get an omega by holding alt/option while then pressing 'z'.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#2

See http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/mackey.html
for instructions on how to add the Greek keyboard layout.
Once you do that, you can easily switch your keyboard layout to Greek and write in Inkscape.

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