[PLUG] A typographic phenomenon

[Petcher, Danielx J]

Your AutoCorrect setting is turning the ' and " (single- and
double-prime symbols) into curly apostrophes as you type. Some fonts
have a glyph defined for this ASCII value; others don't. When it's
undefined, you see the question mark symbol. If you turn-off this
autocorrect feature, you'll have typography that is not quite so pretty
at its best, but it will always be legible.

-djp
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Shepard [mailto:rshepard at appl-ecosys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:46 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] A typographic phenomenon
> 
>   I'm using OpenOffice.org a lot now and I've discovered a couple of
> interesting quirks. I'm curious if others have seen these, too.
> 
>   First, the color matching using the ESP PrintPro driver is not very
> good.
> The printed colors are lighter than those on screen. But, that's an
ESP
> issue I presume.
> 
>   Second, the one that causes me to write is with the display of text.
I
> get
> a lot of winWord docs and they invariably use Times New Roman/12 pt as
the
> bodytext font. Apostrophes and quotes display as question marks here,
even
> after I save them in the native OO.o format. That could be because I
don't
> have that particular foundry's type face installed.
> 
>   Anyway, I noticed that when I changed the typeface from Times New
Roman
> to
> my standard Bitstream Amerigo the question marks were replaced by
> apostrophes or quotation marks. This makes sense if the one font is
not
> installed. What I discovered this morning is that the change also
occurred
> when I changed from 12pt to 10pt. _That's_ unexpected.
> 
> Rich
> 
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