On Tuesday 07 March 2006 17:24, Louis Desjardins wrote: > Hi Team! > > Is there a particular reason why in the new Insert menu we find the 2 > first options : > > Apostrophe [ ' ] (straight apostrophe) > Straight double [ " ] (straight quotation mark) > > I am asking this question for 2 reasons: > > 1. These glyphs are readily accessible from many keyboard layouts (at > least the ones I know). > > 2. The so-called "apostrophe" has been a typographic nightmare ever > since DTP was born and even in the notes from Unicode officials, it > is said that the recommended apostrophe in typography is the curved > one. So why insist on that wrong apostrophe that is so easily > accessible from the keyboard anyways? The same reason applies for the > Straight double which is often used as quotes (guillemets) ... and is > also a typographic nightmare! > > Say we take them out, the menu will look more attractive (less > crowded) AND we will help users develop their taste for nice > typography... :) > > Any thoughts? Maybe I'm missing something obvious or I look at this > from my too narrow point of view (french typography) ?!
Basically for completeness, because I have never seen an Arabic, Indic, Russian, Thai etc keyboard. For that matter, I've never seen a Polish, Portuguese, etc etc.. and FWIW, I REALLY REALLY hate the French keyboard :) Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060307/59dae64f/attachment-0001.pgp
