I have a manuscript with both types. How do I find and replace using Alt Search add-on?
Example:
‘What’s a Merino sheep?’
‘Well. It’s a normal sheep with a very expensive coat.’
‘Like a duffle coat?’
I want all the quotation marks to be typographic, not vertical in the above text.
Thanks in advance
Oggers
Thank you very much - it worked perfectly.
You answered another thread today about removing dialogue from a document. In the below example how would I make each sentence after a full stop a new paragraph so I can strip out the dialogue more? At the moment I have most of the dialogue but not all. I.E. How can I get rid of Sandra Cassidy cut in urgently, looking at her husband.
Thanks you again.
Example:
‘We’d better go.’ Sandra Cassidy cut in urgently, looking at her husband. ‘Where was this other town?’
Do this in three steps:
First the opening quotation marks, occurring after a space or at the start of a paragraph: enter ' in the search box and ‘ in the replace box, and Replace all. Then enter ^' in the search box and ‘ in the replace box, tick Regular expressions and then Replace all.
Then the others, that must necessarily be the closing ones. Just replace ’ with the corresponding curly quotation mark. You may have to enter one, then copy it to the replace box.
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@Astur: You’re quite right, thanks for the heads-up!
Actually, my original solution was inspired by the use of the apostrophe at the start of some Dutch words, which is now always incorrectly converted to a quotation mark by poor autocorrect settings in Dutch word processors (from the very start, I must say, and those bad characters occur in print; nobody seems to care about it).
Great thanks for your answers
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