taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (04/23/91)
I have about a 350 page manuscript that has extensive single
and double quoting, all in "ASCII" format (e.g. as you see
here). I would like to be able to change them to matching
typographic quotes (e.g. `` and '') but *really don't want to
do it by hand* [the very idea fills me with great horror, frankly!]
Is there some way to accomplish this? I've looked through the
documentation I have with Microsoft Word (4.0b) and it talks
extensively about how nice smart quotes are, but doesn't make
reference to how to *do* it.
Please respond via email.
Thanks!
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylorniski@reed.edu (05/01/91)
In article <1944@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: >here). I would like to be able to change them to matching >typographic quotes (e.g. `` and '') but *really don't want to >do it by hand* [the very idea fills me with great horror, frankly!] > >Is there some way to accomplish this? an annoying problem - i've found a leetle trick that does the job, but it requires two passes through your document using the Change command. First, you replace the initial quotes (<space>") with <space>`` (the key combination is Option-[ for the opening double quote). The second time through, replace "<space> with ''<space> (use Shift-Option-[ for the closing curly quote). Works like a charm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Niski niski@reed.edu Mac Support Coordinator Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 503-777-7525