Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> At 07:56 AM 3/1/03 -0800, Richard Yates wrote: >>> Save the Finale file as an ETF file then use a word processor to do >>> search and replace for the characters you want changed. Resave, >>> then open in Finale. >> >> This is all very tricky for curly quotation marks, apostrophes, etc. >> >> I've never come up with a good rule to do it in general text (though >> lyrics, likely with a limited numer of unusual cases, might be a bit >> easier). >> >> For example, "Shi'ite" takes the 6-shaped curly single-quote mark, >> but "in the '60's" takes two 9-shaped marks. Opening quotes are >> usually preceded by a space, but sometimes a carriage return or tab, >> to that helps but is no guarantee. Typos (such as a missing space >> after punctuation) can cause this to fail. Closing quotes get fooled >> by certain punctuation, and search-and-replace will change " and ' >> (for minutes and seconds or inches and feet) or ` and ' (for stress >> marks) to curly quotes. These search-and-replace sequences have to >> be done carefully, and often with dictionary lookups. And, in tight >> layouts, there is an issue that some type fonts demand more space >> for curly quotes than for straight ones. >> >> Search-and-replace followed by careful re-proofing is essential (and >> depressing).
True, but on the bright side, the ETF format makes the text blocks easy to find and the ways that search and replace can go wrong are limited by the context in this particular problem. I would not do a blanket S&R but would check each one before replacing. It seems to me this could still be faster than trying to pick them out in Acrobat (and besides, it would work!) Richard _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
