The direct speech in the focus tools doesn't work well in East Asian languages.

It works very well in english.
Like this.

“Sit right down. Have a cigarette or a cigar.” He walked around the room quickly, ringing bells. “I’ll have something to drink for you in just a minute.”

But if I use it in east asia language, it will be like this.

“Sit right down. Have a cigarette or a cigar.” He walked around the room quickly, ringing bells. “I’ll have something to drink for you in just a minute.”

When the quotation marks are not at the beginning of each paragraph, it cannot be recognized.

Which East Asian language are you talking about?

Mark

Chinese Simplified.

Chinese.

English.

Thank you for your reply.

(1), I believe this is Apple’s code, so KB might have to find a way round it.

(2) I would suspect it’s the same problem that you have if you try to use the footnote marker rather than a highlight; it comes down to a lack of space character. If you put a space after the asterisk or whatever as part of the footnote marker, it works properly in the editor and the extra space is deleted on compile. If you put a space before the opening quote, you might find that the focus works … but of course you will need to see if you can set the compiler to delete them for final output, or replace the spaces with nothing before compiling.

HTH :slight_smile:

Mark

Good advice, I will try it before Apple improves.