Paul wrote:
> Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's
> supplied using standard (") straight single and double quotes.
>
> Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to
> proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')?
Here's some post-pr
Mike Meyer wrote:
>>> Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to
>>> cover most areas that could be problematic?
>> sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g.
>> I didn't look at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single
>> backqotes w
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
>
> > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
> > most areas that could be problematic?
>
> Paul
>
>sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a
and ('')?
>
> I know it can't be done perfectly and will need manual tweaking, but
> there must be something to do most of the work.
>
> All I can think of is to use some word processor that has a "clever
> quotes" function (e.g. MS Word) and then use som
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
most areas that could be problematic?
Paul
sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I
didn't look
at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single
7;t be done perfectly and will need manual tweaking, but
there must be something to do most of the work.
All I can think of is to use some word processor that has a "clever
quotes" function (e.g. MS Word) and then use something like wvLatex to
export that to LaTeX format. Or do a search an
