Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
The global search/replace can be done in OpenOffice using the instructions contained in this Q on the AskLibO site: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2612/how-do-i-convert-straight-quotes-to-typographic-quotes/?answer=7010#post-id-7010 The regex works pretty well in my experience, and it is at least worth a look since you have this software already. -- View this message in context: http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Smart-curly-quotes-vs-straight-quotes-tp3579497p7580331.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
The latest LyX has *|Edit>Find & Replace (Advanced)...> * that is brilliant and allows you to use RegEx. RegEx is cryptic, but this example <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2202811/converting-straight-quotes-to-curly-quotes> will give you a start. Search for "before a letter and replace with left curly bracket, the "after a letter and replace with right curly bracket should do it. Alternatively you could push it through MSWord that claims to do the conversion before importing though the indicated route. -- View this message in context: http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Smart-curly-quotes-vs-straight-quotes-tp3579497p7580329.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
I'm a new LyX user needing to convert a novel manuscript to LyX format. I managed to remove all but the barebones formatting from my OpenOffice-formatted document (could not export directly to LyX -- didn't work for some reason), but now I cannot seem to find any way to convert all the quotes to smart, or curly, quotes. They're all straight quotes. The only thing I've discovered so far is to manually go through and delete the left-quote / right-quote and type in the new one. With over 400 pages including extensive dialogue, this is a huge undertaking! Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes? FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun. Any help is appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Smart-curly-quotes-vs-straight-quotes-tp3579497p3579497.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
Agoldenquill wrote:
Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to
automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes?
FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a
time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight
quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the
right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun.
Any help is appreciated.
Assuming you mean the character by straight quote and assuming you want
American quote style, the following preamble code is supposed to produce what
you want in the output (while the straight quotes are kept inside LyX):
\usepackage[english]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{}
Jürgen
Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
I'm a new LyX user needing to convert a novel manuscript to LyX format. I managed to remove all but the barebones formatting from my OpenOffice-formatted document (could not export directly to LyX -- didn't work for some reason), but now I cannot seem to find any way to convert all the quotes to smart, or curly, quotes. They're all straight quotes. The only thing I've discovered so far is to manually go through and delete the left-quote / right-quote and type in the new one. With over 400 pages including extensive dialogue, this is a huge undertaking! Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes? FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun. Any help is appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Smart-curly-quotes-vs-straight-quotes-tp3579497p3579497.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
Agoldenquill wrote:
Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to
automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes?
FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a
time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight
quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the
right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun.
Any help is appreciated.
Assuming you mean the character by straight quote and assuming you want
American quote style, the following preamble code is supposed to produce what
you want in the output (while the straight quotes are kept inside LyX):
\usepackage[english]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{}
Jürgen
Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
I'm a new LyX user needing to convert a novel manuscript to LyX format. I managed to remove all but the barebones formatting from my OpenOffice-formatted document (could not export directly to LyX -- didn't work for some reason), but now I cannot seem to find any way to convert all the quotes to smart, or curly, quotes. They're all straight quotes. The only thing I've discovered so far is to manually go through and delete the left-quote / right-quote and type in the new one. With over 400 pages including extensive dialogue, this is a huge undertaking! Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes? FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun. Any help is appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Smart-curly-quotes-vs-straight-quotes-tp3579497p3579497.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes
Agoldenquill wrote:
> Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to
> automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes?
>
> FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a
> time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight
> quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the
> right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
Assuming you mean the character " by "straight quote" and assuming you want
American quote style, the following preamble code is supposed to produce what
you want in the output (while the straight quotes are kept inside LyX):
\usepackage[english]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
Jürgen
