[scribus] Quotes.

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 6 20:13:48 UTC 2011


On 08/06/2011 03:22 PM, Meho R. wrote:
> On 06.08.2011 18:21, John Culleton 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.
> But why are you doing this manually at the first place? You can simply
> type straight ("plain") quotation marks temporarily and use Autoquote
> script to convert them to proper quotation marks.
>
I was hoping someone would mention the Autoquote script, which isn't 
perfect, but does a pretty good job, and can manage the typographic 
quotes for a number of languages.

Greg



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