Louis Desjardins a ?crit : > 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) ?! > > Cheers! > > Louis > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > Agree with Louis: we have to replace the wrong ' by the good ? in the keyboard shortcuts meanwhile we'd like to have directly the good one when typing ' (but it might be also because we write in French...)
Raphael
