On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:21 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote:
> When typing text with a number of quoted words or word strings the > present arrangement of choosing a quote character from a menu gets > tedious. Has consideration been given to a "smart quote" feature? A " > character at the left edge of the line or one preceded by a space > becomes automatically a left double quote and all other " become right > double quotes. > -- > John Culleton > I don't understand the problem, John. One opens a quoted string with a single keystroke and closes it whenever he/she wishes, with another single keystroke. I cannot understand how one would make that much simpler. This will not apply to everyone, but in my magazine columns, I often put long quotes in their own paragraphs and have a quoted style that is applied to that paragraph using the Story Editor. Very seldom, however, do I use the Story Editor as a word processor or type directly into the frame, even. I would prefer to use the spell and grammar checking capabilities of a word processor than to wing it, depending on my own abilities where those functions are not present. So, when my text gets imported into a frame, it is composed, already, and I merely need to apply the proper formatting to fit the layout. I suppose if you want quote marks that curve from the top in toward the quote on both ends there is more than one keystroke on each end involved. I totally eschew those marks as tedious and a bit old fashioned, but to each his own. Using them would slightly complicate the matter by adding two more keystrokes. -- John Ghormley KJ4UFG Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal* Walkertown, NC USA editor at sera.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110806/99dec342/attachment.html>
