Thanks. This did help. I have had people tell me that there is a single quote
in my email or text file when I meant to put in an apostrophe. I've tested this
and my apostrophe now works properly when I read a word back.
Gabe
On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I mentioned, you can disable them globally or just for specific apps.
>
> 1. To disable them globally.
>
> * Go to System Preferences.
> * Open the Keyboard pane.
> * Activate the Text tab.
> * Navigate to the "Use Smart Quotes and Dashes" checkbox and uncheck it.
> * Close your System Prefs.
>
> Smart Quotes will be disabled across all apps that support this feature.
>
> or...
>
> 2. To disable/enable Smart Quotes and more for specific apps. For example,
> Mail or TextEdit.
>
> * Up to the Edit menu.
> * Down to Substitutions.
> * Right to the sub-menu.
> * Uncheck the options you wish to uncheck.
>
> That should do it.
>
> HTH.
>
> Later...
>
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>
> On Jul 29, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Gabe Griffith <gabrielgriff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not to sound like an imbecile, but how would you do what you talked about? I
>> have this happen as well and would be interested in disabling the smart
>> quotes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gabe
>>
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Smart Quotes is usually on by default in Mavericks. So, the word "you're"
>>> will likely be placing an angled right apostrophe which VO will announce as
>>> such. To the sighted person, this sort of thing looks fine, but to the VO
>>> user, it sounds odd when listening. You can turn off Smart Quotes for all
>>> apps that support it from within the Text tab of the Keyboard pane of
>>> System Preferences. Or, you can turn it off for specific apps by going
>>> under the Edit menu, Substitutions and unchecking Smart Quotes for the
>>> given app that supports it. I usually just leave it on for most apps but
>>> have turned it off for TextEdit so that things work properly when pasting
>>> stuff into Terminal from TextEdit.
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>
>>> Later...
>>>
>>> Tim Kilburn
>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You know, that would make sense, except this is happening in words like
>>>> you're, it's, there's. It's happening with all the words that I just
>>>> typed.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Donna
>>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Tyler Spivey <tspi...@pcdesk.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It might be smart quotes.
>>>>> Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you
>>>>> want to turn them off.
>>>>> For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark
>>>>> ('), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either " or "
>>>>> depending on which end of the quotation you type.
>>>>> On 7/29/2014 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For some time now I've noticed that when I type an apostrophe, Voiceover
>>>>>> is speaking back to me that I typed a single right quotation mark.
>>>>>> What's going on here? And what is it actually typing? I can get it to
>>>>>> say "apostrophe" if I hit the key twice, then the second press gives me
>>>>>> an apostrophe, and then I can go back and delete the first keystroke
>>>>>> which is the single quotation, but that's just ludicrous! Has anyone
>>>>>> else seen this? Does anyone have a solution?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>
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