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TTBashore
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  		   Posted 6/7/2002 6:11 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Is there any way to get Finale to use typographer's quotes in text items other than ALT-0146, etc.? There's an interesting article by John D. Berry on creativepro.com where he states:

"To anyone with any sensitivity to the shapes of letters, whether they know the terms of typesetting or not, this straight apostrophe is like a fart in a symphony -- boorish, crude, out of place, and distracting."

Word, InDesign, and PageMaker all do this automatically and I'm sure many other programs do as well. Can Finale do this and I'm just missing a setting or does this fall into the feature request category?
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Fred G. Unn
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  		   Posted 6/7/2002 7:58 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Sorry Anon, I don't know of any way to get Finale to do this other that the ALT way you described. Great feature request though. Be sure to email it to winsupport.

Fred
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  		   Posted 6/7/2002 11:35 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
a.k.a. smart quotes. I have my F10, F11 and F12 keys (the extra ones, bless my multiply redundant keyboard) programmed for ’. “ and ”. (I wonder if those symbols will appear properly!) You might try Quickeys or something like it for alt-0146, 0147 and 0148.
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