At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly
quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix
all the damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect can do
that automatically. Not only that, it can differentiate between
quote marks and real inch and foot designators. Let's see your OO/LO do that!
I am not sure what this is since I have never had any particular
difficulty dealing with these things.... though I am not sure how
one can understand that a particular single quote is an "inch mark"
as opposed to a non-curly double quote.
I think the reference to an "inch mark" is simply a way of
identifying your (typewriter-style) "non-curly" double quote.
But Mr McGarrett does have a point, I think. OpenOffice Writer will
replace typed single and double quotes with what it calls custom
quotes quite efficiently as you type. But if you have existing
straight quotes in a document (perhaps in an inherited document or in
text pasted in from elsewhere), there appears to be no easy way to
apply that intelligence after the event. You could replace a
straight quote with a curly one, but you'd have to select manually
the individual cases where you needed open and close quotes: you
cannot at this stage invoke Writer's ability to use its intelligence
about this. In some other word processors (dare I mention Microsoft
Word if I promise to wash my mouth out?), you can merely replace
straight quotes with straight quotes: replacement is treated the same
way as typing, the same intelligence is invoked, and curly quotes of
the appropriate handedness are substituted en masse.
Brian Barker
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