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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
And you know, if you're doing a novel and editing it after breaking up into chapters all this replace stuff just gets really repetitive and time-consuming. (end of rant--lol)
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You set Scrivener aside earlier because it had a lot of stuff that you didn't think you'd need, but this is a good example of some of that stuff. Scrivener will automatically insert em-dashes when you type -- (two normal dashes) and will enter curly quotes and apostrophes correctly. What's more you can press a hotkey to update a document automatically to switch between curly and straight quotes.
You can also set your compile preferences to switch between straight and curly quotes and em- and normal dashes, so that for some purposes you can export with them and for others without.
Graham