Interesting. I'm a European user and the Smart Quotes section in my maker.ini looks like this:
; Smart Quote Characters ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) English curved quotes ; SmartQuotes \xe2\xd4\xe3\xd2 ) German-style quotes with base quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xc7\xc8 ) French-style quotes using guillemets ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xd3\xd3 ) Swedish- and Finnish-style quotes ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) Italian curved quotes ; ; English curved quotes: SmartQuotes=''"" I don't remember changing anything in the maker.ini file, and the smart quotes work for me. Anyway, it's good to know that it can be fixed, and that you can even use "custom" quotes per language. Thanks to Jeremy and Dr. Reng! -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:37:02 -0700, "Jeremy H. Griffith" > <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote: > > >If you > >want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in > >that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here. > > Dr. Winifred Reng sent me one, and provided the clue that nailed > the problem; thank you! > > It *is* a Frame 8 bug... but it's fixable in maker.ini. ;-) > > You will find a section there (in the main maker.ini, in > the directory with framemaker.exe) that has these lines: > > ; Smart Quote Characters > ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) English curved quotes > ; SmartQuotes \xe2\xd4\xe3\xd2 ) German-style quotes with base quotes > ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xc7\xc8 ) French-style quotes using guillemets > ; SmartQuotes \xd5\xd5\xd3\xd3 ) Swedish- and Finnish-style quotes > ; SmartQuotes \xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 ) Italian curved quotes > ; > ; English curved quotes: > SmartQuotes=''"" > > Note that the first set is commented out, and the last line is the > one in effect. And that's the bug. The characters there are the > old ANSI ones, so those are what FM8 uses, with the bad results > described before. > > So, when *European* users are setting up, they change to the > line needed for their country, German in Dr. Reng's case. And > those *work*. (Dr. Reng also changed \xe2 to \x2c to correct > for a font problem in Univers, a missing baseline single quote.) > > For those of us using English, then, the fix is: > > ; English curved quotes: > ; SmartQuotes=''"" Get rid of this mistake!! > ; These are the right ones (note added equal sign): > SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 > > That tells Frame to use its *internally-coded* characters, > and those it knows how to map to the real Unicode characters, > because in the MIF we get UTF-8 that is correct for those. > > Thank you, Winfried! > > Mit freundlichen Gr??en > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as yves.barbion at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/yves.barbion%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
