brakets in Inkscape 0.91 with MacOS 10.12.6

[bsenjean]

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 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 

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

[brynn]

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

[Moini]

Or use the glyphs dialog or copy-paste to insert a bracket, if then it still doesn't work.

[flamingolady]

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.

[bsenjean]

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 !