I have a (long) manuscript imported from Framemaker via Latex where all the quotation marks (both single and double) appear in Lyx as straight quotes instead of the properly curly ones. The source view, in fact, shows me countless \texquotedbl commands instead of regular quotes.
Is there any way to do a global find and replace that would properly substitute opening straight quotes with open single|double quotes and viceversa for closing quotes? I could search and replace for space+quote(s) and, respectively for quote+space. That would work in most cases and I could fix the remaining issues by hand. I thought the new find and replace could manage, but: 1. I cannot do a simple find and replace for [space][quote] because I am not allowed to enter a space in the find area 2. I can search for reg expression \s" thereby finding most of the instances I'm looking for. But I cannot enter a space in the replace area, nor can I enter a regular expression in it (as the manual explains, reg expressions are not allowed in the replace area yet). 3. Using regular expressions as sketched above in an external editor breaks the lyx file, because straight quotes are needed for citation commands (and probably in other places as well. Any idea? Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
