On 04/08/12 15:26, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 04/08/12 13:19, Eric Weir wrote:
I write in Vim and when ready to format/publish dump documents in LyX
for formatting as LaTeX documents. When I do so, double quotes show up
in LyX with closing quotes at the beginning and end of the quote. When
dumped in a word processor, opening and closing quotes are identical as
well, but they are the vertical quotation marks, not the ones that curve
in and out that is standard in LyX. I'm guess the latter is what is
meant by "smart quotes."
I'm wondering if it's possible to change the encoding of double quotes
in Vim so they don't get translated the way they do in LyX.
Thanks,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Vim's double quotes are Latin1 0x22, Unicode U+0022 QUOTATION MARK;
Unicode adds about them:
* neutral (vertical), used as opening or closing quotation mark
* preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+201C
“ and U+201D ”.
If LyX modifies your neutral (") quotation marks to make them closing
ones (”) that's a LyX problem, not a Vim problem.
If you want to be able to type “pretty” quotation marks in Vim (as I
just did here in my mailer), there are several possibilities:
- find out if your keyboard has them (on mine, it's AltGr+v and AltGr+b)
- use Ctrl-V u 201c and Ctrl-V u 201d (see :help i_CTRL-V_digit)
Oh, and I forgot: use Ctrl-K "6 and Ctrl-K "9 (see :help digraphs-use)
- make up (or find) a keymap which has them, see
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_make_a_keymap
- make Insert-mode mappings for them, for instance (with the ‘ and ’
single quotes for good measure):
" double opening quote
map! <F6> <Char-0x201C>
" double closing quote
map! <F7> <Char-0x201D>
" single opening quote
map! <S-F6> <Char-0x2018>
" single closing quote
map! <S-F7> <Char-0x2019>
and put them in your vimrc (see :help <Char> about the values I used
above in the {rhs} of the mappings). The above assumes that 'encoding'
has been set to UTF-8 before you define those mappings, see
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode
Best regards,
Tony.
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