Thread: How to convert straight quotes to smart 'curly' typographer's quotes
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Old 04-02-2016, 11:35 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
I know that in my Smarten Quotes procedure in the add-in I run about 15-16 fixes to repair common mistakes by MS with regards to the quotes. Some are straight, others are RegEx. It fixes a lot of mistakes, but will not catch things like 'Twas, 'ell and things like that. It is not possible, at least I haven't found them, to define rules for those.
'Twas is difficult but 'ell is fairly easy since it is reasonable to think that any word after a ' would begin with a capital letter. At least in the majority of cases.

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