I'm going to hazard a guess here. Check the setting on Tools > AutoCorrect > Autoformat; do you have the checkbox checked for "Replace straight quotes with smart quotes"? If so, it is undoing what auto text does.
On 11/20/04 7:04 PM, "Barbara L. Taverna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re: Auto text cleanup > Diane, > > Here is the example you requested. Thanks for the link to Text Soap which I > have used in the past. I guess I could also copy everything into a > Microsoft Word document first and change the quotes but it would certainly > be an extra step I would rather avoid. Entourage did this perfectly up > until the present upgrade to 11.1.0. I'm sure it can do it again. I > appreciate your help. > > Barbara Taverna > > Diane Ross > Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:19:22 -0800 > On 11/20/04 9:07 AM, "Barbara L. Taverna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thank you for the information! I have visited the Quote FAQS but this >> particular situation does not seem to be there (although I may not be >> searching with the correct phrases?). My problem is mainly with material I >> copy from various websites to be reprinted on a Yahoo-sponsored newsgroup. >> I have always been able to highlight, access the "edit" function and then >> select "straighten quotation marks" and the procedure has worked properly >> through several upgrades of Entourage. I did change the tools section as >> suggested but to no avail with copied material. Everything else in auto >> text cleanup that I use is working properly; e.g. Paragraphing, removing >> quotes, etc. There must be something else I should do? > > If you could send me a specific example, I could take a look. In the mean > time, you might want to check out textSOAP. > > <http://www.unmarked.com/html/index.php > > > > > Following is direct copy from a website placed in an Entourage mail document > before auto text cleanup > > > The involvement of women, first as victims of terror and then as its > progenitors, was brought up by Syrian-born Sheikh `Umar al-Bakri, who took > refuge in London and advocated at some point that �all homosexuals there > ought to throw themselves down from the Big Ben,� called the British MPs > �monkeys�, and vowed that the flag of Islam would �fly high on 10 Downing > Street and at the Elysee�. He justified and defended the September 11 New > York and Washington horrors, which for him came as a �compensation for the > atrocities the US had committed against Islam�, and exhorted Muslims to > unite and fight, sacrifice themselves and their wealth in order to gain > access to Paradise and to make the difference between �truth and falsehood, > belief and heresy, oppressors and oppressed, the alliance of Satan against > the Alliance of Allah�. After the American attack against Afghanistan was > launched, he issued a fatwa against Pakistani President Musharraf and other > Muslim leaders who let their territory be used by Americans against a fellow > Muslim state. In that verdict, for what it is worth, he raised, inter alia, > many aspects of the status of women in Islam and in general, in the context > of what we call terrorism and he insists on dubbing jihad. For him, the > Muslims who collaborated with the US were murtaddun (apostates), if �at all > they were Muslims to start with�, and since they are involved in the war > against Muslims, the sentence of murtadd harbi (an apostate who should be > fought) applies to them, to wit: > > After using auto text cleanup to straighten quotes (quotes are not > straightened): > > The involvement of women, first as victims of terror and then as its > progenitors, was brought up by Syrian-born Sheikh `Umar al-Bakri, who took > refuge in London and advocated at some point that �all homosexuals there > ought to throw themselves down from the Big Ben,� called the British MPs > �monkeys�, and vowed that the flag of Islam would �fly high on 10 Downing > Street and at the Elysee�. He justified and defended the September 11 New > York and Washington horrors, which for him came as a �compensation for the > atrocities the US had committed against Islam�, and exhorted Muslims to > unite and fight, sacrifice themselves and their wealth in order to gain > access to Paradise and to make the difference between �truth and falsehood, > belief and heresy, oppressors and oppressed, the alliance of Satan against > the Alliance of Allah�. After the American attack against Afghanistan was > launched, he issued a fatwa against Pakistani President Musharraf and other > Muslim leaders who let their territory be used by Americans against a fellow > Muslim state. In that verdict, for what it is worth, he raised, inter alia, > many aspects of the status of women in Islam and in general, in the context > of what we call terrorism and he insists on dubbing jihad. For him, the > Muslims who collaborated with the US were murtaddun (apostates), if �at all > they were Muslims to start with�, and since they are involved in the war > against Muslims, the sentence of murtadd harbi (an apostate who should be > fought) applies to them, to wit: > > > At Yahoo website we then get: > > The involvement of women, first as victims of terror and then as its > progenitors, was brought up by Syrian-born Sheikh `Umar al-Bakri, who took > refuge in London and advocated at some point that 3all homosexuals there > ought to throw themselves down from the Big Ben,2 called the British MPs > 3monkeys2, and vowed that the flag of Islam would 3fly high on 10 Downing > Street and at the Elysee2. He justified and defended the September 11 New > York and Washington horrors, which for him came as a 3compensation for the > atrocities the US had committed against Islam2, and exhorted Muslims to > unite and fight, sacrifice themselves and their wealth in order to gain > access to Paradise and to make the difference between 3truth and falsehood, > belief and heresy, oppressors and oppressed, the alliance of Satan against > the Alliance of Allah2. After the American attack against Afghanistan was > launched, he issued a fatwa against Pakistani President Musharraf and other > Muslim leaders who let their territory be used by Americans against a fellow > Muslim state. In that verdict, for what it is worth, he raised, inter alia, > many aspects of the status of women in Islam and in general, in the context > of what we call terrorism and he insists on dubbing jihad. For him, the > Muslims who collaborated with the US were murtaddun (apostates), if 3at all > they were Muslims to start with2, and since they are involved in the war > against Muslims, the sentence of murtadd harbi (an apostate who should be > fought) applies to them, to wit: > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
