On 04/26/11 17:33, Steve Litt wrote:
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.
For me, with English defaults, also `this' gave correct single quotes,
and ``that'' gave correct double quotes, while "the other" did not give
correct double quotes. That last usage did, at one time, give correct
quotes in LyX, but I think there was some reason why that behavior was
changed. I don't use quotes that often (when you plagiarize, you
plagiarize, and don't use quotes to give away what you did), so did not
pay too much attention. The way I did those quotes seems easier than
the Alt- stuff, although it is kind of texish.
I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake. In American
English, should the opening matched single quote look like a six and the
closing one look like a nine? That's how mine is, although of course the six
and nine don't have actual loops.
I'm pretty sure that's right.
--
David L. Johnson
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
