#smartquotes — Public Fediverse posts
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Whoever it was that decided "smart" quotes should apply everywhere can DIAF. Yes, by all means auto cow wreck normal quotes to fancy curly things in a word processor, but doing that in a text editor or a notes app is just wrong.
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Are we absolutely certain that Atlassian does not specify the use of #smartquotes? https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114403645615823791
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deloitte.com. 3600 IN TXT "\226\128\156atlassian-domain-verification=TERygaFH40lyOd2hmJGtCA2w1aJwx6y7tFKDkgG/KbegUOj0NrRxiWP9wM6y3e4H\226\128\157"
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@jasonsantamaria Thanks so much! I have been waiting for a resource about smart quotes such as this one, and I am glad I stumbled upon this awesome website!
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@DaysOfFuturePast
The only thing I use Microsoft #Notepad for is to remove formatting and convert #SmartQuotes into #DumbQuotes before I paste text.
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I swear, #autocorrect is trolling me. And that’s not even an apostrophe! It’s a straight quote which represents “feet” as a unit of measurement. I’m dying inside about all of this.
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MS Word 2010 em-dash curly-quotes trick
Ah, Word! You and your quote smart unquote quotes! Finally got smart and added in a new AutoCorrect rule in Microsoft Office 2010: replace —“ (which is what it loved to do to me, all the time) with —” (which will save me a lot of backspacing. In case yo ...
https://pixelvaniastudios.com/2018/08/25/ms-word-2010-em-dash-curly-quotes-trick/
#autocorrect #curlyquotes #em-dashes #indiepublishingtips #microsoftword #smartquotes #stupidwordtricks #Writing