Umlaut behaviour

[PeteC]

I think this is a small bug. I used the word naiive and wanted to spell it naïve. I used character map to copy the ï and pasted it into my Publisher document. It copied OK but there's a carriage return/line feed inserted after it every time. It's reproducible for me. My font is Cambria Regular 11pt.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Pete.

I’m not on my Windows machine right now so I can’t confirm the bug that you’re reporting, but I wondered if you still get a line break after the ï if you copy and paste the word ‘naïve’ from either your post or mine in this thread.

I like and use TypeIt.org for characters which aren’t available from my keyboard. The page for French accents is here: https://french.typeit.org

[SPaceBar]

Hi @PeteC

Welcome to the forum. Can I check what version of Publisher you are using please?

[walt.farrell]

Does it help if you copy the character from Publisher's glyph browser?

In any case, I do not see the problem you've described. I can paste a ï from Windows Character Map into text in Publisher and I get only that character, with nothing added.

[PeteC]

Hi, thanks for replying. My version is the latest, I think - v1.8.3.641

Publisher's glyph browser -- no, everything works fine there. My display is a 4K monitor and sometimes the characters are very hard to read.

ï ï  These are from Character Map and work fine here. But doing the same paste in Publisher adds CR + LF as I've described.

My system is quite generic - I'm still on Windows 7 Prof 64bit with all auto-updates until support ended last year. I run Kaspersky Anti-virus, Ad Blocker, Ghostery. I should add that I'm a rank amateur, not used to DTP except using Serif Page Plus a bit. Maybe I've created a style without realising it. I admit I'm finding Publisher hard going. I'm considering going back to my word processor, Lotus Word Pro from 20 years ago, still the best!

[Joachim_L]

2 hours ago, PeteC said:

My display is a 4K monitor and sometimes the characters are very hard to read.

You can change the size of the glyphs. See attached image.

2 hours ago, PeteC said:

But doing the same paste in Publisher adds CR + LF as I've described.

Maybe a linefeed is copied also here?

[SPaceBar]

Hi @Pete C

We've managed to recreate the issue and a bug has been logged. I would recommend using one of the other methods mentioned above as a workaround in the meantime.

[PeteC]

Oh, that's gratifying. I wasn't imagining it after all. It's no problem, as you say, there are ways around it and it's not as if I use it regularly. Thanks for following up.

[SPaceBar]

Thanks for letting us know.