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Old 03-22-2016, 08:35 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What I would like is a way to convert UK style quotes to US style quotes because UK style quotes just look unnatural.
One brute force way to do it is to replace all singles with doubles and then either correct the spelling mistakes in the contractions - some spell checkers are better at that than others, or use a regex replace of [a-z]"[a-z] with \1’\2.

Maybe it's yet another feature Toxaris could offer in his Word add-in as part of dialogue checking

BR

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