[scribus] Quotes.

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Sat Aug 6 22:31:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:13:48 -0400
Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 08/06/2011 03:22 PM, Meho R. wrote:
> > On 06.08.2011 18:21, John Culleton wrote:
> >> When typing text with a number of quoted words or word strings the
> >> present arrangement of choosing a quote character from a menu gets
> >> tedious. Has consideration been given to a "smart quote" feature?
> >> A " character at the left edge of the line or one preceded by a
> >> space becomes automatically a left double quote and all other "
> >> become right double quotes.
> > But why are you doing this manually at the first place? You can
> > simply type straight ("plain") quotation marks temporarily and use
> > Autoquote script to convert them to proper quotation marks.
> >
> I was hoping someone would mention the Autoquote script, which isn't 
> perfect, but does a pretty good job, and can manage the typographic 
> quotes for a number of languages.
> 
> Greg

don't be so shy, greg! :-)

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a.l.e



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