Re: Annoying replacements of apostrophe in Word docs under Mozilla
On 13 Jul 2002, Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:49:57PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Is there any way to get Mozilla to show the correct apostrophe instead
> > of the symbol y-diaeresis (y-umlaut) which appears in its place? (I
> > presume these docs were originally created with Word.) It's annoying
> > when reading a long article. Does it require a plugin or different font?
> > Or do we just have to put up with it?
> >
>
> You might try installing the msttcorefonts packag which downloads
> Microsoft's free (gratis) truetype fonts. I've been using Georgia and
> Verdana in mozilla for quite some time and haven't *noticed* any wierd
> substitutions for the so-called 'smart quotes' that wurd-html contains.
>
> Of course, I might just have been lucky all this time...
>
> dt
>
> PS The Andale Mono font in this package makes a pretty good xterm font.
>
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Quite right; I should have thought of that. I do have the fonts but I
wasn't using them in Mozilla. Now that I am the pages render OK.
Anthony
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