Hi, Another method for this is to go under the Edit menu to Substitutions and look at what is there. You can affect Smart Quotes Smart Dashes and more.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Aug 13, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Chris Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I looked in the textedit preferences and came across something called "smart > dashes". I unchecked it which may have fixed the annoyance. > > Chris > On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello there >> Actually, although it appears on the display as a question mark or a th >> sign, VoiceOver actually says m dash or if you do it again it will say >> horizontal bar. I think this is a bug in braille displaying. >> >> My Braille Edge 40 actually converts two occurrences of double dash as the >> word his. Go figure. That's even weirder. >> >> When you go over it, does VO say horrizontal bar? If it does, I think you >> can ignore the weirdness. >> >> Gigi >> >> On Aug 13, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Chris Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello listers, >>> I have a rather strange thing happening in textedit. When I enter two >>> consecutive dashes on my braille display, it is almost always converted to >>> a question mark (dots 1 4 5 6). Is there some setting in textedit which >>> controls this behavior? >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
