https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85102
Bug ID: 85102
Summary: FORMATTING: Autoformat straight quotes using the
Search and replace dialog
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
==This is not a bug, it is an enhancement request==
Problem description: The problem is not related to the autocorrect options
under the Tools menu, since this option applies to newly inserted quotation
marks. The problem has to do with all the straight quotation marks (both double
" and simple ') of a text and their replacement by formatted quotation marks
using the Search and replace function.
Steps to reproduce:
(with straight quotation marks, simple or double, in a text)
1. Search and replace
2. Search with regular expressions ("\< for opening quotes and \>" for closing
quotes)
3. Replace by formatted quotes (“ and ”)
Current behavior:
In order to replace straight quotes by formatted quotes using the Search and
replace dialog, opening and closing quotes must be replaced separately, since
otherwise all quotes (opening and closing) will be replaced by the same
character. To this end, the only way as far as I know, is using regular
expressions to find opening and closing quotes separately. I would search
firstly the opening quotes of a text (and therefore, with characters to the
right) by searching "\< (regular expressions enabled) and replace them with
formatted opening quotes (“). After that I would search the closing quotes (or,
at this point, the remaining straight quotes of a text) by searching \>"
(regular expressions enabled) and replace them with formatted closing quotes
(”).
Expected behavior:
It would be really handy if the search and replace function could automatically
detect whether the straight quotes should have opening or closing format
according to the presence or the absence of characters to the left and to right
and format them automatically, without the need of regular expressions. MSWord
allows users to autoformat quotes by searching and replacing quotes by the
exactly same character. Please see the Note in the following link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/change-curly-quotes-to-straight-quotes-and-vice-versa-HP005190124.aspx
Thank you very much for your attention and your time. This is my first
submission and hope everything is understandable.
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