alessandro rimoldi wrote: > buond?, > > > >> But that is not what I was looking for. I assumed that "typographer's >> quotes" would be an option somewhere. Like I could turn it on and then >> Scribus would always use the typographer's quotes when I am typing - >> no need to insert a special character. >> >> I can't find the option anywhere. I know it is not trivial to add a >> feature like this, but all word processors do it, so it should be >> possible. Does it exist as an option somewhere in Scribus? >> > > typographer's quotes are very hard to get right, and scribus being an app > which is still under heavy development preferred to concentrate on other > topics. > > you have to consider that scribus is used all around the world and different > languages (and even some regional versions of languages) have different > rules, which may even be somehow complicated. you also have to consider that > quotes can be nested and that quote signs may also be used as apostrophes. > > so, for now, you have to manually set the correct quote for each case... > We can hope that somewhere in the future we might get some configurable automation of this, which could be localized for various languages' usage, especially considering that the typewriter keyboard ' and " are rarely the right characters in typesetting. Wordprocessors have been doing this for years.
I don't think we quite have the tools yet, but a script might conceivably be created for it. In the nearer term, iirc, one of our GSoC projects is a rewrite of Search and Replace, which by itself would simplify this. Greg
