Upside down quote marks

mspe...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 1, 2004, 10:17:58 PM7/1/04

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IDCS randomly uses an upside down quote mark. I can't figure this out. I keep trying to replace it, no dice. Quotes are fine in most of the document, then there will be an upside down one.

Any ideas? Thanks, Monique

Henning...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 2, 2004, 9:31:08 AM7/2/04

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You can set the style of quotes in Preferences:Dictionary. ID replaces false quote marks, i.e. separators for inches, feet, seconds, minutes, with these "typographer's quotes".

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Bob_Levine

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Jul 2, 2004, 9:37:52 AM7/2/04

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What language do you have selected for the text?

Upside down quotes are used in some languages.

Bob

Dave_S...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 2, 2004, 10:22:55 AM7/2/04

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What exactly do you mean by "upside down" quotes? Is it just a case of some fonts having them the other way up?

Dave

Bob_Levine

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Jul 2, 2004, 10:27:06 AM7/2/04

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Dave,

Some languages use them upside down. Of course they think English uses
them upside <g>. German is one that comes to mind, only because I just
worked on a PowerPoint presentation that contained German coding and I
had change everything to English.

Bob

Dave_S...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 2, 2004, 10:47:33 AM7/2/04

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Bob,

I know. But some fonts have designs that make them look "upside down", using 66 for opening rather than mirrored 99. When people use loose terminology like this, it is best to explore exactly what is being complained about.

Dave

Bob_Levine

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Jul 2, 2004, 10:51:04 AM7/2/04

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Ah, okay. Now I got you.

In that case it would simply be a font design issue.

Bob

mspe...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 2, 2004, 4:16:17 PM7/2/04

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By upside down I mean: The first quote mark in a quote sits on the bottom of the line, upside down. So in the phrase "upside down," the quote mark left of the letter u is not at the top of the letter, but at the bottom, with its points facing up.

It doesn't seem to be a language issue.

Thomas_...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:36:51 AM7/3/04

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That certainly could be a language issue. Baseline quotes like you've described are a standard opening quote in some languages.

Most likely problems:
1) You have your quotes prefs set funny
2) The problem text is marked as being a different language, such as German or some such, which uses quotes in that fashion.

You haven't responded to people's suggestions that (1) above could be the problem. Have you checked this?

T

mspe...@adobeforums.com

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Jul 3, 2004, 7:32:14 AM7/3/04

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Thanks for everyone's help on this. My prefs were okay and I thought the language was too -- but I found that somehow in a couple of places I had made myself Czechoslovakian. Don't know how it happened. All fixed now. Thanks!

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Jul 8, 2004, 4:07:33 PM7/8/04

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Jul 9, 2004, 5:09:16 PM7/9/04

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