[Scribus] german quotation marks

Craig Bradney cbradney
Wed Dec 17 16:33:25 CET 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 14:33, dave wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:43, John Christian Stoddart wrote:
> >>
> >> hardwiring the quote system to the language
> >
> > Wouldnt it make more sense for normal typing to use the default for the
> > language, and those "irrational" graphic designers to use the "Insert
> > Special" option?
> 
> IMHO it would make most sense to be a preference default, and not a 
> *hardwired* default, which is what I think John was saying :)
> 
> So a graphic designer has the ability to change the default, in 
> addition to the "Insert Special" option, and gets the best of both 
> worlds, while most people are just served up the default and think 'Oh, 
> thats neat' :)

Then you would have to have a preferences dialog for all languages,
giving quoting (and possibly other) character definitions. Im not saying
this isnt possible.. 

Anyway.. will discuss it with Franz more tonight on IRC.

Craig






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