Two centered tabs would be nice but I can’t figure how to do it, been messing about with it for ages but not sure. That em dash solution is so easy and ideal and is what I’m using now. But I’d like also to master the two centred tabs solution just to know how to do it.

So I emailed Linotype and they said, ‘Taking a look, it looks like it’s because the font does not have quotation marks in it’s character map. I will escalate this case to our development team to see if it’s by design.’ So it looks like it’s the font itself.

Hi Alan, I set the positional form to automatic, still no luck. And I tried it with two other Arabic fonts, Adobe Arabic and another one and they worked fine. I even deleted Lotus and reinstalled it, still no luck.

The only way I can get the correct speech marks is if I go to: Type: Insert Special Character: Quotation Marks: Double Right/Left Quotation Marks, when I insert them in this way they are entered without the font changing.

Hello Alan, I just went through all my paragraph and character styles and they were mostly all set to Arabic and the ones that weren’t, I changed, but still no luck. When I type the speech marks the + sign actually comes up next to the paragraph style to show that local formatting has been applied and it actually lists Minion Pro as the override.

Weird this.

I just created a new document with no paragraph or character styles except the defaults, threw some Arabic placeholder text in there and selected all and changed the font to Lotus Linotype, the one I’m using, inserted the speech marks and same thing, still reverts to Minion Pro.