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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: bsenjean on November 13, 2017, 01:29:48 PM

Title: brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6
Post by: bsenjean on November 13, 2017, 01:29:48 PM
Hi,

I installed Inskape 0.91 on my new MacOS 10.12.6 (Sierra), but I don't succeed to

write simple curly or square brakets... The option command that I usually use to do the
curly braket '{' is :text: alt+5. But on this version of MacOS, alt+5 does something else on the text.
This is really annoying for me because I also use a lot the textext extension, and those brakets are used everytime.
Does anything like this happened also for some of you ? Any help is welcome, I'm becoming crazy  :beg:

Ps : On my previous MacOS El Capitan, there was no problem with the same Inkscape version...  :b1:


Title: Re: brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6
Post by: brynn on November 14, 2017, 04:11:34 AM
Welcome to the forum!

I'm not a Mac user, but as far as I understand, you need to take some extra steps to make Alt work properly in Inkscape.  This FAQ will tell you about that, along with a few other Mac-specific issues, which you might find helpful.

https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#mac-os-x-specific-issues

Let us know if you have any problems or questions :)
Title: Re: brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6
Post by: Moini on November 14, 2017, 04:30:31 AM
Or use the glyphs dialog or copy-paste to insert a bracket, if then it still doesn't work.
Title: Re: brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6
Post by: flamingolady on November 14, 2017, 03:16:52 PM
What Moini said.  As a workaround can you use a character map?  In windows at least - you type 'character map' from the command line and it comes up, then you pick the font, select the {, and hit copy, then paste.  The character map can also be brought up in the c:\\Windows\font directory.  no idea how a mac works.
Title: Re: brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6
Post by: bsenjean on November 17, 2017, 01:57:30 AM
Thank you all for your answer ! :)

I did not want to do copy past, I need all [, {, }, ] a lot of time so it would be a nightmare to copy paste the 4 of them every time.

The problem has been fixed by Brynn ! The problem was fixed just by changing the preferences in x11 about the Alt command. Thanks a lot, it works perfectly now !

 :ty1: