I see. Thanks a lot. Very interesting. I'm not too technical (a
journalist-editor-writer). So I'll need to ask my techie friend.
Anyway it works for me now, the way I'm doing it. I imported the file
that was set in Jstar (a clone of WordStar, and from the Joe family).
It's ancient, but I love using it's command-line only interface. --FN
On 19/06/07, David L. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frederick Noronha [फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या] wrote:
> Thanks, David and Mark. No, actually I'm referring to the appearance
> *both* on the monitor and on the printout.
>
> My earlier attempt, done hurriedly for the first book I edited, didn't
> work.
>
> But thanks to you guys, I think I've got it this time. What needs to
> be done is to use the ``quotes" .. and it works fine. The " quotes
> (close quotes) might need to be replaced, because plain-text doesn't
> render it exactly as would the key to the very far right on the middle
> row does in Lyx.
I'm still confused. In order to get "plain" quotes in LyX you would use
Ctrl-", which would be used, say, in ERT to get accented characters,
such as \"{a} for an a with an umlaut. Maybe your keyboard has another
key with those quotes defined that way, or maybe, if you converted a
file from another format, the quotes got converted that way.
Here is a file with examples of quotes. For the correctly typeset ones,
I just type ". Lyx converts the strings as you see, by converting the "
to `` or '' depending upon position, which then TeX understands.
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David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
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