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Originally Posted by indieauthor83
Hello,
Can anyone please tell me how to add curly quotes in Sigil?
As I believe, because it's not a word processor, there is no option in there to change quotes automatically. And I no longer have the original word document. So can anyone please tell me how I can change the text (straight quotes) that it's Sigil, to curly quotes.
I know what the html code is: & (#8221; ) minus the brackets, and & (#8220; ) minus the brackets. I've added brackets so you can see the code I've tried using. I can get it to work on here... “ see ” but when I type this into Sigil it doesn't render (it comes up with an error message).
All replies are appreciated!
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I use named entities all the time in Sigil, and they co-exist nicely with the actual curlies that Sigil seems to prefer to display.
I see what your problem is, though. I'm sure you could use regex to replace straight-quote followed by a letter with a “ and then go through and replace a full stop (or comma or question mark or exclam) followed by a straight quote with a “ but personally I would just go through with a search and replace. I have done this in Word, and it's pretty quick.
Speaking of quotes in pairs, I have seen a distressing (well, I'm distressed) tendency on the part of reputable newspapers to use only a single pair of quotation marks in an extended quote, one at the beginning and another at the end, with the intervening paragraphs bare of any mark.