2010/8/29 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On 08/18/2010 04:58 PM, a.l.e wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:42:51 +0200<br>
Thorsten Panknin<<a href="mailto:thp@thorstenpeh.de" target="_blank">thp@thorstenpeh.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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*bump*<br>
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a.l.e<br>
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Here is something I've put together over the weekend:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Convert_Typewriter_Quotes_to_Typographic_Quotes" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Convert_Typewriter_Quotes_to_Typographic_Quotes</a><br>
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As written, it will convert typewriter quotes to typographic quotes in a single selected frame. The logic is a bit kludgy, but it performs pretty well. So far, you can choose English or German style quotes, others to come. Do not expect it to be perfect, you will still need to scan your document to see how it did, and as always, save your document just before running the script.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Hi Greg,<br><br>I was wondering whether this was a job for Short Words?<br><br>I have a dream that Short Words is the typographic tool we need to tackle many of those issues.<br><br>In French, since the quotes are preceeded and followed by a word space, it might be kind of tricky to set the rules for a computer to make the appropriate call where a human would figure out in a fraction of a second what is opening and what is closing... But we could tell the computer to look for the next quote and then set the first to opening and the second to closing. This might need much more thought...<br>
<br>(I left my answer unfinished for days and now I am reading the post by Axel Bojer, very interesting!)<br><br>What occurs to me is that unless there would be some coding mysteries (for me at least!), such tables that make such auto replacements could (should?) be in the Short Word table?<br>
<br>We could then have a powerful tool to manage typographic rules according to each language (or even better, according to just any given case).<br><br>I think that Short Words is the home for this !<br><br>Louis<br></div>
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