[Scribus] Absolute newbie: typographical symbols

[Plinnell]

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:58, Bruce R. Miller wrote:
> I have been asked to edit and ``typeset" an eight-page
> newsletter for a volunteer organization --- within the
> next 36 hours! The previous editor (moved to another
> city) used Microsoft Publisher. I do not want to use
> that, but this is literally learning Scribus ``on the
> fly".
>
Well, if it is commercially reproduced, even black and white, your printer 
will be happy ;0 

> With apologies for not doing the work myself to find
> the information, can someone point me to any
> documentation on:
> (1) how to insert common ``typographical" symbols into
> plain text files, e.g. endash, emdash, typograthic
> apostrophes and quotation marks, bullets (ugh) and the
> like.
> (2) given where I live in Canada, the newsletter has
> to  contain a mixture of English- and French-language
> content. My French text displays fine in kvim but not
> with cat or less at the command line.
> Can someone point me to the hoops I must go through to
> ensure correct printing of French accented letters.

In the story editor, there is the ability to "Insert Special" . This will give 
you access to accents, including bullets and other special charachters.  
provided the fonts have the glyphs. 
>
> Once again, my apologies to all for asking for help
> rather than finding the information myself. I am under
> intense time pressure and allowed myself only a rapid
> look through the Scribus online documentation.
>
> I hope to reach a point to offer back; until then,
> thanks in advance.
>
> Bruce Miller
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Don't forget IRC #scribus on irc.freenode.net

There is usually someone here to help.

Cheers,
Peter