[mmat1]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Is there a straightforward way to convert plain ASCII quotes to "smart" or "typographic" quotes?

How would you describe the text, where an opening quote is? I guess, there's some white space or a <p> before and some letters after a opening quote.

In regex this should be

(<p>|\s)"(\w)

replaced with

\1“\2

. For closing quotes:

(\S)"(\s|</p>)

.

I hope i got this regex right, i'm still on a learning curve as well . But in general it should work in most (maybe not all) cases.