SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

[Hedley Finger]

All:

At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote:
>Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It 
>came through silent. :)

Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't 
happen and I sent off an empty message.  Sorry if it didn't satisfy 
your humger for knowledge. [Boom, boom.]

>Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or ", question marks (?) appear
>in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes.
>Apart from these [fonts, selected for testing because high quality], 
>Smart Quotes does not work with any *.ps, *.ttf or
>*.otf font from any manufacturer.  Anybody else seen this?  What is the
>fix?
>You can still insert the single and double quotation marks from the
>Character Map on Windows, but what a pain!

Well, I discovered the fix is simple.  Choose Format > Document > 
Text Options and CLEAR the Smart Quotes checkbox.  Yep, deselecting 
this checkbox causes the appropriate opening and closing quotation 
marks to be inserted when you press " or ".

Regards,
Hedley


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