It would appear that on Apr 16, Jürgen Spitzmüller did say:
> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
> > used as single quotes???
>
> Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single
> quotes, hit Alt-".
OK, I guess that makes sense. I guess that the reason aspell ignores
"apostrophes" when used for single quotes in a text file is probably
because the Alt-" shortcut doesn't work in most text editors, and
aspell's author or maintainer decided to use some logic to treat them
as single quotes when they were obviously so used?
Thank you for telling me how to get around this... I think I'm going
to have to re-edit a few files to replace some misused apostrophes...
Though being more familiar with the bash command line than with formal
writing ("rules"?) I'm not surprised that I thought they were single
quotes.
Thanks for setting me straight.
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