[Scribus] german quotation marks

[Craig Bradney]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:43, John Christian Stoddart wrote:
> 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 ;)


Wouldnt it make more sense for normal typing to use the default for the
language, and those "irrational" graphic designers to use the "Insert
Special" option?

Craig




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> 
> 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
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