[Scribus] ugly quote marks

[Craig Bradney]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:34, Servants wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 22:16, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:05, Servants wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 June 2004 22:04, you wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 15:06, Servants wrote:
> > > > > I am currently running Scribus 1.2rc1 cvs 24 June
> > > > > under Slack 9.1 with qt-3.2.1 and xfree86-4.3.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have loaded an alternate font path for TrueType
> > > > > fonts from my Windoze system, and am using
> > > > > Garamond.ttf.  The quote marks, however, are ugly. 
> > > > > It seems that the text in Scribus is using the
> > > > > undirected typewriter-style ASCII single quotation
> > > > > mark and apostrophe U+0027 and U+0022 rather than
> > > > > the typographic directed quotation marks U+2018 and
> > > > > U+2019.  I know the problem is not the font, for it
> > > > > works correctly in Windoze using PageMaker.  Any
> > > > > help correcting this would be appreciated.  FWIW
> > > > > the same thing happens in gimp-2.0.2 on this
> > > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > Err.. yes.. thats the way it is.
> > > >
> > > > Use Insert Special or type in the Unicode value in
> > > > hex, eg 0x201C and 0x201D by F12 then the value.
> > > >
> > > > For the moment Scribus does not do this automagically
> > > > for you.
> > > >
> > > > Craig
> > >
> > > Thanks.  Where would one "type in the Unicode value in
> > > hex?"
> >
> > in the text frame type, for example:
> > Hello F12+201C Bruce F12+201D
> >
> > Craig
> 
> Sorry, mate, but I don't understand.  I've typed that but 
> don't understand when or how it's going to convert it to 
> quote marks.
> 
When you hit the F12 key, it goes into "unicode typing mode". After you
type in the next four chars (hex!) it will then insert the unicode
character, whatever it may be. Have a look in Insert Special for the
character code you need. Not all fonts will have them. Right click on
the characters in Insert Special to get the correct codes and make sure
the font you are using has the characters.

Craig
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