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Capital accented letter on first line of master text box doesn't show

Hi!


I work in French, and this language has accented letters (à, è, é, ê, ô, î, ï, etc.). When you put them in capital form, they must keep their accent along (À, È, É, Ê, Ô, Î, Ï, etc.).


In Keynote '09, when I use the master text box (body) with text alignment set to top and, on the first line, there is an accented capital letter, the accent shows up when editing the text. But when I deselect the text box, this very accent gets cut off by the master text box, like if anything outside the text box shouldn't appear. This shouldn't happen, since it doesn't do that in a regular text box, with or without columns. By the way, the inset is set to 4 pt in all cases.


It bothers me because the only way to make it work is to set the master text box inset greater than necessary, and to align things all together, I can't rely on alignment helpers...


I think this could be corrected in the next update or upgrade of Keynote. Anybody has the same problem and agrees?


How do we send suggestions like that to Apple iWork's development team?

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 7:25 AM

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Mar 21, 2013 6:57 AM in response to Gary Scotland

The behavior I'm talking about is related exclusively to master text boxes, not to text boxes you can add at will in slides or master slides.


I've been noticing this problem since the very beginning of Keynote, not only today, and not only under Mountain Lion.


But as I can see in your screenshot, the accented letters aren't even getting close to the box's boundaries, even with Inset Margin set to 0. Which makes me think the font you used has a lower baseline, and mine is higher. Though it doesn't change the fact that the behavior described here affects master text boxes only...


Still very weird!

Mar 21, 2013 7:15 AM in response to Gary Scotland

The font I used is Utopia. Inset Margin is set to 4.


I just checked out in the White template with the default font (Gill Sans) and using the "Title & Bullets - 2 Column" Master slide as a base for the slide (because the vertical alignment is set to top by default) and the behavior is still the same: the accent gets cut off on the first line when it contains an accented capital letter. There again, the Inset Margin is set to 4 (seems to be default setup).


I noticed another thing: when I increase font size, the cut off is even worst: I almost lose the accent completely! And when I decrease font size, there is still a cut off by about half of it.

Capital accented letter on first line of master text box doesn't show

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