Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes

2016-02-21 Thread dajare 
The global search/replace can be done in OpenOffice using the instructions
contained in this Q&A 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.



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Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes

2016-02-18 Thread Jethro Belle 
The latest LyX has *|Edit>Find & Replace (Advanced)...> * that is brilliant
and allows you to use RegEx. RegEx is cryptic, but this  example

  
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. 




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Re: Smart/curly quotes vs straight quotes

2009-09-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller 
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{"}

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