Re: Smart Quotes
Re: Smart Quotes
I assumes that the first thing to do is to disable the smart quote
feature before passing your text.
Yes...
Then you will be able to use Find/Replace to treat the remaining
straight quotes.
No. Smart quotes (or typographer's quotes) is beyond the scope of
simple find and replace. Determining when to use left or right can be
very tricky when dealing with punctuation, apostrophes, contractions,
numbers and quotes within quotes.
For example, one of the ways the automatic feature fails is in this
title: "That ’70s Show" the mark before the 7 should be a right/
single quote, but inDesign applies a rule that makes it a left/single
quote, which would be expected if I were sending it a straight quote.
I want to pass a right/single quote unchanged, and use inDesign rules
for all straight quotes,like the ones on either side of the title, but
inDesign applies the rule to all quotes. Quark only applied the rule
to straight quotes and left the others alone.
ES
Are there any tools that will automatically convert straight quotes
to smart quotes?
I'm using inDesign now and it's handling of quotes is causing
problems. If I pass text to the application with left or right
quotes, it converts them to smart quotes, which is not what I want.
I want it to leave the left and right quotes alone and only convert
straight quotes.
Any suggestions?
ES
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