[Scribus] Stupid N00b Question

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 04 July 2005 16:22, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Adrianna Pinska wrote:
> >As for the opening/closing double quotes, the rule is quite simple:
> >within each paragraph, alternate opening and closing quotes, starting
> >with an opening quote.  If a quote is accidentally omitted (or an
> >extra quote is inserted) in the original text, you'll need to fix the
> >problem manually, but fortunately you'll never have to fix more than
> >one paragraph per stuff-up.  You shouldn't ever have nested double
> >quotes to worry about.
>
> I think that in word-processing programs, it has to do with whether
> there is a preceding space or not; it has to be a little more
> complicated than that, since you might have something preceded and
> followed with parentheses like ("blah, blah, blah...."), but focusing on
> the absence/presence of a preceding space takes care of the bulk of the
> situations.
>
> I wonder if there could be key-mapping to use Alt-', Ctrl-', and
> Shift-Alt-', Shift-Ctrl-', since as far as I know these aren't used for
> anything else.
> Is there a way to use Scripter to modify the contents of the text frame?
> (ie, are there commands in Scripter to do this?)
>
> Ultimately, it would seem there could be a toggle to turn on/off
> quotation mark subs, with modifiers to choose what you want to substitute.

The plan is to use character styles and the future styles to enable automatic 
replacement. I have not yet assigned default key modifiers to the quotes we 
have now, but will do so when we continue into 1.3.1cvs.

Craig
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