space before apostrophe

Hello madand,

welcome to the Pages Discussions. Happens this space with every font or only with one font? I have tested this and it seems that the fonts "Hei", "Kai", "LiHei Pro", "StHeiti", "AppleGothic" and "Apple LiGothic" has a very wide space before an apostroph, but no other font and I have found no wide space after apostrophs. Please check, if this is right for your fonts as well.

On my machine (with a zillion fonts) the character setting varied from font to font. Most of them rendered beautifully, something I am really impressed with.

Some text in the templates are in a larger character width than normal. Select the text and open the inspector and click on the text tool (T). Make sure the character slider is at 0%. You can also click right before the apostrophe and move the character slider until the spacing becomes what you want...another fantastic Pages feature.

You could also, for the heck of it, check in the Pages preferences (Pages menu/Preferences) and click on the 'Auto correction tab.' Make sure there is no autocorrect involving the apostrophe.

I use Text Expander which automatically inserts text. Are you using any tool like that?

Kurt

If you are set on using the font see the second part of my previous suggestion:
...You can also click right before the apostrophe and move the character slider until the spacing becomes what you want...another fantastic Pages feature.

Kurt

I believe that those fonts are originally intended for use with Chinese and or Korean. The spacing occurs with quote characters (“,”,‘,’) and not the straight apostrophe or quote (',"). I believe that the typographic rules for using quotes in those languages dictates extra spacing before and after quotes, so the font designers added the extra spacing in the font itself.

If you browse those fonts in Font Book, with Preview showing a sample, you'll see that while they do support Roman characters, they primarily have East Asian scripts. When dealing with European scripts (esp. Roman), you should be able to find other fonts which look fairly similar, and which will suit your needs more accurately.

Titanium PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

TextExpander: Customizable Typing Utility Saves Time!

This is an excellent shareware app. It has some performance issues creating snippets but is very quick at pasting in the snippets. I have some long phrases that are created almost instantly using this app. In addition the app can do formatted text and pictures.

Kurt

I agree with Kurt about TextExpander -- it's a great little utility that I make use of every day. (And I haven't noticed a single performance issue creating a snippet.) In fact, I keep my signature (below) in TextExpander. I type in xsig, and it automatically inserts all the HTML code to make my signature.

-Dennis

And I haven't noticed a single performance issue creating a snippet.

The speed issue is in the TextExpander preferences when creating a shortcut. Typing a shortcut is incredibly slow, 10 seconds to register each typed letter. Once the snippet and its corresponding shortcut are created the snippet works well, pasting instantly into a doc when the shortcut is typed.

What version are you using? I sent an e-mail to the creator of the program asking if there are performance boosts in the new shareware version. I have not purchased the program ( I downloaded it as donationware in an earlier version) because of this speed issue.

Kurt

Hello,

I use Textpander since autumn of last year for every day work and I have no performance issue. Now I am using the Textexpander shareware tool with a lot of entries and all works fine.

I am using it mainly for HTML creation (yes, I am one of this text editor lovers) and I noticed no difference between the donation and shareware versions for performance, neither for editing nor for using.

Like Dennis, I use it for my signature, too 🙂

Kurt,

I suspect your issue with TextExpander is similar to the issue some folks are having with Pages. I have no slowdowns defining snippets with TE.

-Dennis