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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  59    RANKING-  0018
 DATE RECEIVED- APR 22, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- MAY 12, 1997
                              TYPE- NEW DEVELOP

 DESCRIPTION-

        As a desktop publisher, one thing I find lacking in OS/2 is the
        EASY support of typographically correct characters like "curly"
        quotes, em dashes, etc.  I know some fonts support this, but it
        is VERY awkward to switch between fonts and have to manually
        format your document to be typographically correct.

        The DeScribe word processor had true typographical characters
        like curly quotes which automatically where applied to what you
        typed.  I don't know how they did it, but I heard it was
        difficult.  I need this ability in other OS/2 applications
        (i.e., WordPro and Freelance Graphics).  I hope OS/2 developers
        follow Windows' lead in making these code pages available to
        users and applications.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        MEDIUM Value
        Desired next FIXPACK

        Submitted by:

        Michael Hansen
        Chicago, IL, USA
        mhansen@sprynet.com

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