Quotation marks, when typed, do not belong to the font in use, but rather "default" to some other unknown font, even though it says the quotation marks belong to the font in use.
I thought this might have been a problem with the version of Inkscape that I was using, so I updated from 0.92 to 1.02, yet the problem persists.
Does anybody know why this is occurring and how to fix it?
Is this perhaps an issue of "straight" quotes instead of "curly" quotes? Curly quotes look sort of like 66 and 99. Which kind of quote mark do you want?
That was exactly the issue. I found out shortly after. I copied and pasted proper quotation marks, which finally worked as expected. I learned that other programs like illustrator "auto-correct" the improper quotes, which is why Inkscape *seemed* like it was broken. It sucks not having a number pad on my keyboard. Now I will always have to copy and paste quote marksΒ :(
Depending on your operating system, there are ways around having to copy/paste characters. If you google how to insert unicode characters + your OS, you'll probably find something.
I use Linux most of the time, and I did a quick search, and I can type Ctrl + Shift + U, followed by the hex code of the character. So, for curly quotes on Linux, you would type...
Ctrl + Shift + U (hold down these keys while typing them). In the Inkscape taskbar at the bottom of the screen you'll see the words 'Unicode (Enter to finish)'
Now type the hex code. For the opening quote mark it's 201C and for the closing one, it's 201D (I had to use the numbers at the top of the keyboard. It didn't work with the number pad at the right hand side - if your keyboard has such a thing). Press Enter after you've typed the code, and it should display on screen.
I realise that you more than likely aren't running Linux, but if you search around, you'll learn how to enter Unicode codes for your OS. It's a little bit of a faff, but once you've memorised the codes, it'll become easier.
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Quotation marks, when typed, do not belong to the font in use, but rather "default" to some other unknown font, even though it says the quotation marks belong to the font in use.
I thought this might have been a problem with the version of Inkscape that I was using, so I updated from 0.92 to 1.02, yet the problem persists.
Does anybody know why this is occurring and how to fix it?
Thanks
Is this perhaps an issue of "straight" quotes instead of "curly" quotes? Curly quotes look sort of like 66 and 99. Which kind of quote mark do you want?
That was exactly the issue. I found out shortly after. I copied and pasted proper quotation marks, which finally worked as expected. I learned that other programs like illustrator "auto-correct" the improper quotes, which is why Inkscape *seemed* like it was broken. It sucks not having a number pad on my keyboard. Now I will always have to copy and paste quote marksΒ :(
Depending on your operating system, there are ways around having to copy/paste characters. If you google how to insert unicode characters + your OS, you'll probably find something.
I use Linux most of the time, and I did a quick search, and I can type Ctrl + Shift + U, followed by the hex code of the character. So, for curly quotes on Linux, you would type...
Ctrl + Shift + U (hold down these keys while typing them). In the Inkscape taskbar at the bottom of the screen you'll see the words 'Unicode (Enter to finish)'
Now type the hex code. For the opening quote mark it's 201C and for the closing one, it's 201D (I had to use the numbers at the top of the keyboard. It didn't work with the number pad at the right hand side - if your keyboard has such a thing). Press Enter after you've typed the code, and it should display on screen.
I realise that you more than likely aren't running Linux, but if you search around, you'll learn how to enter Unicode codes for your OS. It's a little bit of a faff, but once you've memorised the codes, it'll become easier.
no, im not using linux on this machine.
i know its possible to do with the character map, without the number pad,Β but what a pain :(
anyways, thanks for your help!
You would think after 20 years this would have been addressed long ago.