On 30 Oct 2007, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 30 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> I seem to have dome something to the quotations style but I can't see >>> what. I've tried different settings in Document - Settings - Language >>> but it keeps coming out the same when I view pdf or dvi. >>> >>> At first I was getting " (i.e. two small vertical marks); this wasn't >>> ideal but it was acceptable. Now, when I print it or view pdf, I get two >>> marks slanting to the right, both before and after the quoted text. >>> >>> On screen it still looks the same, like two vertical marks. >>> >>> Actually, in plain latex I can get a better effect, with correct >>> inverted commas, by doing ``text''. There does not seem to be any way >>> to get that effect in Lyx, which is odd. >>> >>> Any comments? >>> >> Sorry to reply to myself but I think I've found what the problem was - >> it was the font I was selelecting, Palatino instead of default. >> >> Anthony > > Hermann Zapf, the designer of Palatino and many other beautiful typefaces > (Aldus, Comenius, Melior, Optima, Rennaisance...), preferred quotation > marks in this style. > > Bruce
Interesting. It's what you are used to I suppose. I may go along with Palatino in the end. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)
