I’ve been told that desktop publishers call these chicken scratches " instead of quotes (i.e. “ and ”). The flow subtitle doesn’t seem to be able to display apostrophes correctly. In the image below, the large text is a flow title and the small text is a flow subtitle.
I know I can fix it with a flow heading override, but is there any way have the apostrophe in the flow subtitle to automatically display correctly?
How are you entering the subtitle? Are you using Project Info and the {@flowSubtitle@} token, or are you entering it directly into the page or template? I think Dorico will smarten quotes in tokens, but not in direct text.
Also, note that the apostrophe in your flow title is actually facing in the wrong direction. It should look like this:
In order to get this in Dorico, I think you have to enter the correct punctuation mark directly in Project Info. There are system utilities on Windows and Mac that let you produce these characters.
(This is not Dorico’s fault: the basic rule is an open quote at the start of a word and a close quote at the end. This usage needs a close quote, but Dorico has no way of determining that.)
Dorico displays smart quotes in flow titles but apparently not in flow subtitles using tokens, I just tested it.
Indeed it does, the hyphen after the quote is the culprit 
Ah, right, good catch. This actually seems like a small bug; normal quote smartening rules shouldn’t prevent that one from displaying properly.
But I guess that means that @Dissonancely will need to enter the character by hand in any case.
I typed the text in project info and used the smart tokens. I didn’t notice that the apostrophe on ‘round was facing the wrong the direction. Thanks for pointing that out. (I’m in a hotel tonight and will be flying all day tomorrow.) I will take another look tomorrow night. Again, you all are amazingly helpful.
