erock

Hi:
I know I had the process for this somewhere, as well as the code, but can't locate it. I need to replace the straight quotes and apostrophes in my text in GLCS1 with the correct, "curly" quotes...can anyone give me the steps, or direct me to a source of info?
thanks
L

martin-s

Look in GL's Web Settings, in the Characters tab under general
punctuation (at the very bottom) - they're all there.

Select individual ones to see names/ISO codes. It used to be safer to
specify them as ISO codes, like “ for a left double-quote, but in
modern browsers you shouldn't have problems using the entity name “

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Cheers Martin

erock

Thanks, Martin!
What a great trick to know, and so easy! I didn't even know that function was there. FAB.

Ok, since I have your ear (eye?):

1 - can you give advice as to controlling line breaks and text rags? This is something I would do in ID with kerning, etc - but am stymied in GS. I have a couple of very narrow columns, and the rag looks horrendous - where would I go in CSS or otherwise to find the means to tweak the rags, or otherwise control/improve the line breaks in text?

2 - bulleted lists: I want to indent the second line to align with the first character in the first line, after the bullet. Again, I need the equivalent of the "Indent to here" character in ID. Is this doable in CSS?

sorry to pile the questions on - thanks so much for your help thus far
Libby

martin-s

The web is in its infancy when it comes to that level of control. First
there's no automatic hyphenation. There's a discretionary hyphen - ­
- but it's not well supported.

Try experimenting with the properties

letter-spacing
word-spacing
text-align

setting the value in a relative unit like for instance ems rather than pixels.


CSS does that automatically. You can control the bullet character using

list-style-image: url(bullet.jpg)

to use a graphic of your choice or

list-style-type: none;

to use no character at all or any of the defaults.


Anyway, I bet you will find lots of interesting bits on this website:

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
<http://webtypography.net/>

If that still leaves you a bit frustrated ;-) well, CSS has some
features that are mostly unmatched in traditional DTP applications:


descendant selectors: p strong

applies special formatting only to strong tags *within* plain paragraphs
<p> (a bit like nested styles in ID)


adjacent sibling selectors: p+h2

applies special formatting to a level-two heading *immideately*
following a plain paragraph <p>
child selectors: ul>li

applies special formatting only to li elements that are *direct
children* of an <ul> leaving deeper nested list elements untouched.
See also here:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#type-selectors>

These last selectors are finally becoming usable since they are
supported in the majority of modern browsers including IE7 Win, Mozilla,
Firefox and KHTML (Safari, Konqueror, etc.)

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Cheers Martin