[Scribus] german quotation marks

[John Christian Stoddart]

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 ;)



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