French quotation marks

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maine bob Author

Level 1

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French quotation marks

How do you insert these quotation marks « » so they do not sit on the font baseline?

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 5, 2008 11:34 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 5, 2008 1:57 PM in response to maine bob

I switched my keyboard to French but had no success.

Try Option/Alt + 7 and Option/Alt + Shift + 7. If you don't get the right marks, tell us what you do get.

PS On a US keyboard, it should be Option + \ and Option + Shift + \.

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maine bob Author

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Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM in response to maine bob

I switched my keyboard to French but had no success. If I use Caslon Pro which has the correct quotation marks, I can access them through PopChar but not from the keyboard in either U.S. or French. Thank you for the suggestion.

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 5, 2008 2:31 PM in response to maine bob

« » so they do not sit on the font baseline?

The correct placement is for them to point at exactly half the height of a lower case letter. All the ones I am able to create behave that way. Do you think it should be otherwise, or do you see this behavior as "sitting on the baseline"?