Re: Fwd: Smart quotes patch

Here is my second attempt at a patch. I have done some preliminary
tests and it seems to work for English. The new thing is that UNDO
WORKS! (at least for me)

As I said before, there are some features I'd like to add, but I want
to see the reaction to what I have here.
1) A GUI to set quote characters (I believe the rules will work for
most languages, only the characters would need to change)
2) An easy way to add an apostrophe at the beginning of a word ('Tis
or 'em) - perhaps you could use the backtick?

Neither of these is a big deal to me. I rarely write anything besides
English, and then, without quotes, but it would be more robust.

Please note that there is a GUI option in the Preferences dialog to
turn smart quotes on/off.

Bobby

On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Gerrit Sangel <z0idberg@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am Freitag 08 Februar 2008 schrieb Bobby Weinmann:
>
>
> > Yes however, I have been using this as my guide:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark,_non-English_usage
> >
> > Wherein it states:
> > - Sometimes, especially in books, the angle quotation marks (see
> > below) are used in Germany and Austria, albeit in reversed order: »O«.
> >
> > This may be wrong. Can a German confirm or deny it?
>
> No, this is true. In newspapers or so „" is used, in books more often »« (the
> primary quotation marks, the ones you would use in hand writing and which are
> taught in school (at least when I was in primary school), are „"). Both are
> correct. Not correct is what some people tend to use nowadays, these ugly
> english quotation marks "" ;). Yet worse, they sometimes use "", this is the
> worst of all. Usually you would not find «», at least I have not seen it (or
> it didn't catch my eye)
>
> Gerrit
>