Font problem - wrong quatation mark

[Thor Thorsson]

Hi !

Suddenly I got the wrong quatation mark when writing in Word using the font
Courier New. Other fonts give the right kind of quatation mark. The problem
only appears when I use Courier New.

Here is a screendump showing how it looks like in Word:
http://home.swipnet.se/thor/forum/couriernew_quatationmark -1.jpg

I have searched several different of my cd-rom installation cd:s for a fresh
copy of the font, but in vain.

How do I get the right quatation mark back again?

I run Word 97 SR-2 on Windows XP SP2.

 

[Thor Thorsson]

Sorry, the link got wrong.

Here is the right link:
http://home.swipnet.se/thor/forum/couriernew_quatationmark-1.jpg

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you still have that AutoFormat As You Type option enabled?

 

[Thor Thorsson]

Thanks Suzanne !

I looked into the different Auto Format options and checked the option about
replacing straight quatation marks whith typographic quatation marks. Here is
the box I checked:
http://home.swipnet.se/thor/forum/couriernew_quatationmark-2.jpg

Good! This solved my problem. But only in Word. In all other word
editors I use the straight quatation appears when using Courier New. When
using other fonts in these editors I get different quatation marks depending
on which font I use.

It's peculiar. I had the right quatation mark in Word before, whithout
having the option now changed checked.

And what about this? Look here! I opened up the Windows/Fonts directory and
doubleclicked on the Courier New font. Look at the "single line quatation
mark" which appear. It's straight, not leaning as it should. See here:
http://home.swipnet.se/thor/forum/couriernew_quatationmark-3.jpg
And again, only Courier New in Windows/Fonts has this straight quatation
mark, not the other fonts.

All this is annoying because Courier New is my favourite font which I mostly
use.

I would like to have the right mark back in all my word editors. How can
this be achieved? Where has the leaning quatation mark which belongs to
Courier New gone?

Do you or someone else here have any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My personal feeling is that the "smart quotes" don't look good in Courier
New, which is intended to replicate a typewriter typeface.

When you Open a font in the Fonts folder, though, you are seeing just a
small sample of the characters in the font; what you are seeing is always
Unicode glyphs 0022 (double quotes) and 0027 (apostrophe). When you use
AutoFormat As You Type to "correct" these characters, they are replaced by
(as appropriate) 201C or 201D (opening and closing double quotes) and 2018
or 2019 (opening and closing single quotes); these characters are part of
the ANSI character set as characters 0145-0148.

Many other text editors do not have this "correction" feature. If you want
to insert "curly" quotation marks in non-Word documents, you will have to
insert them from the Windows character map or by using these key
combinations (all numbers must be entered from the numeric keypad):

Alt+0145: opening single quote
Alt+0146: closing single quote
Alt+0147: opening double quote
Alt+0148: closing double quote

 

[Thor Thorsson]

Thanks Suzanne !

Very interesting! Now I have learned more about fonts.

You are doing a good job in this group. It's good to receive such
informative and well thought out answers.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm glad you found the information helpful.