Steve Litt wrote:
> I have an entire 110,000 word book in which single quotes don't pair up,
> but instead both the opening and closing single quote look exactly like
> the character on the key of my keyboard. How can I get LyX to
> automatically pair the quotes up like it does with doublequotes?
In input: Alt+" will produce correct single quotation marks. With LyX 2.0 and
"advanced search/replace", you can directly replace "'" by real single
quotation mark insets.
> My font is New Century Schoolbook (and I like it that way), my language is
> English, my quote style is both double quotes on top, my document class is
> based on Book and I don't think I did anything to modify quoting.
>
> I suppose I could manually replace all leading single quotes with grave
> symbols (lower case tilde), but I'm hoping there's a more automatic way to
> do it. Maybe there's a package somewhere?
The csquotes package. You can define "active characters" and the package will
convert them to the approrpiate glyphs for your language. For instance:
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\MakeAutoQuote{»}{«}
\MakeInnerQuote{¶}
will convert »this is a »text«« and ¶this is a text¶ to correct quotation
marks in the respective language, also considering nesting (i.e., the first
»text« will be in "inner" quotes).
I suppose you will have to replace the apostrophe character with something,
since it will fail at real apostrophes.
HTH,
Jürgen
