[scribus] Automagically insert correct German quotation marks instead of manually inserting them?

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Mon Sep 6 15:03:16 CEST 2010


On Sunday 05 September 2010 15:36:14 Louis Desjardins wrote:
k.
>
> Actually, before the DTP revolution, the apostrophe has — to my
> knowledge — always been a curved one! The straight one is used in
> scientific notation. It’s only because the straight apostrophe was
> so readily available on the keyboard that it was seemlessly and so
> widely introduced into the typographic world.

Just to add to the confusion, typefaces like Palatino have a straight 
figure with no bulb in the single quote positions, with  matching 
straight double quotes. 
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John Culleton
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