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Author Question on QuarkXpress
nick

2004-01-29, 3:28 pm

Sorry for intrusion. Nonetheless it's graphic related.

Is there a newsgroup devoted to QuarkXpress? Do any of you have a
list of key combinations to enter special charactors like a bullet dot
in QuarkXpress on Mac? Out.
Tacit

2004-01-29, 5:28 pm

> Do any of you have a
quote:

>list of key combinations to enter special charactors like a bullet dot
>in QuarkXpress on Mac?



In most fonts, a bullet is Option-8. This is not a Quark issue; it's a font
issue. You can use a utility such as KeyCaps to see what characters you get
when you hold down the Option key.

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Eric Gill

2004-01-29, 5:28 pm

nick <nick@news.com> wrote in news:erli10ddpvaq8hg6ck6vd3hhn2qp4sj0n7@
4ax.com:
quote:

> Sorry for intrusion. Nonetheless it's graphic related.
>
> Is there a newsgroup devoted to QuarkXpress?



No. Quark, Inc apparently got tired of hearing how much better InDesign was
from their own users and deleted their user forums, too.
quote:

> Do any of you have a
> list of key combinations to enter special charactors like a bullet dot
> in QuarkXpress on Mac? Out.



Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map.

However, a bullet dot in PC Xpress is Alt-Shift-*.
jjs

2004-01-29, 5:28 pm


"Eric Gill" <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns947F967868541ericvgillyahoocom@24.93.43.121...
quote:

> nick <nick@news.com> wrote in news:erli10ddpvaq8hg6ck6vd3hhn2qp4sj0n7@
> 4ax.com:


quote:

>
> No. Quark, Inc apparently got tired of hearing how much better InDesign


was
quote:

> from their own users and deleted their user forums, too.



Is Quark Inc. still a cesspool of people with bad attitudes? Is it true they
moved support to India?


Eric Gill

2004-01-29, 6:28 pm

"jjs" <nospam@please.xxx> wrote in
news:101iu9r2893dufd@news.supernews.com:
quote:

>
> "Eric Gill" <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns947F967868541ericvgillyahoocom@24.93.43.121...
>
> was
>
> Is Quark Inc. still a cesspool of people with bad attitudes?



Run by the guy who gives cesspools a bad name: Fred Ibrahimi. It's his
attitude that carries over into every department, much worse since Tim Gill
retired.
quote:

> Is it true they moved support to India?



And development, as well, after Ibrahimi called the american programmers
lazy and and ungrateful in so many words, and essentially blamed all of
Quark's problems on them.

Of course, Adobe's American (and non-American) staff has had little problem
making a competitor that wipes the floor with Quark.

He has met the enemy and it is him.
Stephen H. Westin

2004-01-29, 6:28 pm

Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com> writes:
quote:

> nick <nick@news.com> wrote in news:erli10ddpvaq8hg6ck6vd3hhn2qp4sj0n7@
> 4ax.com:
>
>
> No. Quark, Inc apparently got tired of hearing how much better InDesign was
> from their own users and deleted their user forums, too.
>
>
> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map.



Hmm. Can't find that on my Mac. :)
quote:

> However, a bullet dot in PC Xpress is Alt-Shift-*.



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edjh

2004-01-29, 7:28 pm

Eric Gill wrote:
quote:

> nick <nick@news.com> wrote in news:erli10ddpvaq8hg6ck6vd3hhn2qp4sj0n7@
> 4ax.com:
>
>
>
>
> No. Quark, Inc apparently got tired of hearing how much better InDesign was
> from their own users and deleted their user forums, too.
>
>
>
>
> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map.



Not on a Mac.
quote:

> However, a bullet dot in PC Xpress is Alt-Shift-*.



Not on a Mac.

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Toby Thain

2004-01-30, 5:28 am

tacitr@aol.com (Tacit) wrote in message news:<20040129153930.13001.00001297@mb-m02.aol.com>...
quote:

>
> In most fonts, a bullet is Option-8. This is not a Quark issue; it's a font
> issue. You can use a utility such as KeyCaps to see what characters you get
> when you hold down the Option key.



The default bullet in most fonts usually doesn't satisfy this
typographer. Bullets of various useful sizes and shapes can be found
in Bitstream's Commercial Pi.

T
Eric Gill

2004-01-30, 9:28 am

westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin) wrote in
news:uy8rqcttt.fsf@graphics.cornell.edu:
quote:

> Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
> Hmm. Can't find that on my Mac. :)



Sorry.

Try Keycaps, then.
quote:

>



Eric Gill

2004-01-30, 9:28 am

edjh <edjhann@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:a3gSb.450$VP1.422345@newshog.newsread.com:
quote:

> Eric Gill wrote:
>
>
> Not on a Mac.



I'm aware. There's a dual G4 running Panther sitting on the desk behind me,
right next to my laptop.

His phrasing is somewhat ambiguous, and I'll apologize to nick if I've
misread him.

<snip>
Alan

2004-01-30, 2:28 pm

nick <nick@news.com> wrote in message news:<erli10ddpvaq8hg6ck6vd3hhn2qp4sj0n7@4ax.com>...
quote:

> Sorry for intrusion. Nonetheless it's graphic related.
>
> Is there a newsgroup devoted to QuarkXpress?



Try comp.publish.prepress.
Stephen H. Westin

2004-01-30, 2:28 pm

Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com> writes:
quote:

> edjh <edjhann@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:a3gSb.450$VP1.422345@newshog.newsread.com:



<snip>
quote:

>
> I'm aware. There's a dual G4 running Panther sitting on the desk behind me,
> right next to my laptop.
>
> His phrasing is somewhat ambiguous, and I'll apologize to nick if I've
> misread him.



I don't quite see the ambiguity of "in QuarkXpress on Mac"...

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