Question about quotation marks in different languages

[Glenner]

I had fairly recently some really helpful advice from yoxi about setting up macros for different language sets. One problem I still have are quotation marks. It seems stupid, but there are differences. In English they are always at the top, regardless whether it is at the beginning or at the end of the quotation. In German the marks are at the bottom at the start of the quotation and at the top at its end. I tried to modify them manually in the Tools-Autoformat-Custom Quote section but without luck.('') A search on NeoWiki came up with no results. Can anybody help or point me in the right direction?

Martin

[sardisson]

Given that OOo is descended from a German product and the Sun team of OOo programmers are German, I find that problem a bit perplexing

I know quotes switched languages properly when I did the Multilingual Announcement--but I may have had to retype/find-replace them after I assigned languages to the text sections (since they were all straight quotes on the wiki, I had to do that anyway, so no big deal).

Hmm, I'm getting double-lower-9 then German word then double-upper-6 („zwei“) here. Since I'm in an English document and I don't have any paragraphs or styles defined, I went to Format: Character...: Font and changed the language of my Western font to German, then typed.

Perhaps something in the order of "set language" "type quotes", or something odd in yoxi's macro?

Smokey

[Glenner]

Thanks, Smokey. Thought myself that this was impossible not to work. I moved my library folder aside and it worked straightaway.('') Something must have become corrupted. Now I only have to get my macros back.('')

[sardisson]