Date: February 9th 2010

Hi Mike

With a scanned doc I will use the Frame spelling checker.
First verify or set your document smart quotes with
[ Format > Document > Text Options]
then use
[ Edit > Spelling Checker... ]
click in [ Options ] and set [ Find ... Straight Quotes ]
and then [ Start Checking ]

Furia

On 9/2/2010 19:21, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> If you add some other characters to your searches, you could do this in
> several passes. For example, to get the open quotes, you could do this:
>
> <space>"
>
> where<space> is a space character, and replace with open quotes. Then you
> could use this to find any that might be at the beginning of paragraphs:
>
> \P"
>
> Now, the rest of them in the document/book should be closed quotes, so you
> can find " and replace with closed quotes.
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-659-8267
> rick@frameexpert.com
> www.frameexpert.com
>
> http://www.frameexpert.com/peace/
>
>
> From: Michael Cenedella [mailto:ropes12@comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:56 PM
> To: Free Framers Subscriber
> Subject: [Free Framers] Replacing straight quotes with smart quotes
>
> I'm scanning some out of print books and putting them into Frame to make use
> of PDF functions. I end up with straight quotes.
>
> I find plenty of instructions to go from smart quotes to straight quotes,
> but I need to go in the opposite direction.
>
> I can replace all, but that leaves me with half the quotes to fix - the
> opening quote in a pair is OK, but the closing quote then is the same as the
> opening quote.
>
> How can I fix make the close quotes smart without doing each one manually?
>
> I admit my skills are a bit rusty, so I hope I'm not asking an elementary
> question.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Mike
>
>
>


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