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• • June 4, 2013 at 12:16 am #33800
    Gon Paran

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    Hi everybody, I am new to indesign and have to say that it isn’t a very straight forward intuitive software but from what I understand form the pros it is well worth my while to overcome the difficulties.
    In general I am able to fine a workaround my problems with patient digging and looking around for solutions to them but I encountered the oddest thing: when ever I type ‘ I get > instead. it drives me nuts…
    So far I eliminated the possibility that it is font, input source, or dictionary/document language (if that what it is?) related as I tried all fonts, both in hebrew and english and changed the language of the dictionary/document from arabic (ME default, I wish i knew how to change that) to Hebrew and English US/UK.
    Please help, thanks
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  • June 4, 2013 at 12:34 am #33801
    Gon Paran

    Member

    Problem solved, I have now Idea how. I played with the preferences and ticked off the “use typographer’s quotes” and then tried to retype the sign and voila but when I reticked it on it didn’t change (well it did change to a different looking ‘ but not to >. So I have really no idea.

  • June 4, 2013 at 8:39 am #33804
    David Blatner

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    You can change most defaults when all documents are closed.
    I would strongly recommend checking out some resources, such as subscribing to lynda.com and watching some videos there (such as my InDesign Essential Training course). You can get 7-days free here: https://www.lynda.com/trial/indesignsecrets

    We don’t cover Hebrew and multi-lingual publishing too much here, but there is a good title by Diane Burns at lynda.com, too, on multi-lingual publishing. There are some people here who speak Hebrew or use the ME version, though, and perhaps they can help.

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