[OpenFontLibrary] Typographers' (

[Christopher Adams]

Hi Eric,

The ComposeKey: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey

—Christopher


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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:42 PM, <eric at authoritism.net> wrote:

> Dear oflb,
>
> a bit off-topic.
>
> As I'm starting to use more and more Ubuntu, I wonder: how to easily make
> typographers quotes, ellipses and en and em dashes. Can anyone recommend me
> a script or shortcut?
>
> On the Mac there are handy keystrokes:
>
> http://www.papress.com/other/thinkingwithtype/resources/images/keystrokes.gif
>
> I use them all the time, in the web browser, in the terminal--it just feels
> wrong to have 'dumb' (<- like these) quotes and ... in stead of a proper
> ellips character...
>
> thanks,
>
> Eric
>
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