On Sunday 24 May 2009 03:21:22 pm Michael Joyner wrote: > Insert special charecter: alt+shift+" ?
Thanks---not a very smart question, wasn't it? Actually, I never thought insert-single quote would insert the right-handed one--I suppose I should brush up my Latex once again. Perhaps I would understand why Latex gets the single quotes right most of the times, and why sometimes it fails. Cheers, S. > > Stefano Franchi wrote: > > I am working on a file that contains lots of words ending with an > > apostrophe, i.e. an apostrophe followed by a space. Sometimes, although > > not always, Lyx gets confused and converts the apostrophe into a > > leftsinglequote in the typeset output, which is not at all what I want. I > > suppose Lyx takes the single quote sign as the opening of a quote. > > > > Is there a possibly unobtrusive way to force Lyx to use the > > rightsinglequote character? The ` character seems to force Lyx to use the > > leftsinglequote. Is there a similar trick for its right-handed companion? > > Perusing the manuals was unhelpful---but I may have looked in the wrong > > places. > > > > Cheers, > > > > S. > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Stefano Franchi > > Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 > > Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 > > 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] > > College Station, TX 77843-4237 ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] College Station, TX 77843-4237
