On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:43, John Christian Stoddart wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 19:02, Craig Bradney wrote: > > It should (will possibly) be based upon the language of the text frame. > > > > Craig > > Please don't fall into the trap of hardwiring the quote system to the > language. > > Quotation marks are not only a matter of national custom or convention, > there are animals out in the wild called the graphic designers, who may, > on irrational flights of whim or fancy, want to use different quotation > marks. > > Thanks for hearing me out ;)
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? Craig > > > > John > > > > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:42, John Christian Stoddart wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:14, Thomas Zastrow wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:28:12 +0100 > > > > henrik wilming <henrik at lysithea.sunn.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey guys! > > > > > > > > > > I am new to this list and have a little question: > > > > > Is there any way to do German quotation marks in scribus without > > > > > having > > > > > to paste them > > > > > out of the character table? > > > > > > > > I looked around and I think - at the moment, no. Perhaps one of the > > > > programers could implement this?? > > > > > > > > :-) :-) > > > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > Even better would be a "generic" single and double quotation handling > > > mechanism, where you could select from either French, German, Anglo or > > > anyone else's style quotation marks. > > > > > > Right? > > > > > > Regards all, > > > > > > > > > > > > John Christian Stoddart > > > Caracas - Venezuela > >
