On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, John Wetterau wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that single and double quotes get inverted in the printout?
> eg. "He said to me, 'Forget it!'" prints as: "He said to me, 'Forget it!"'
> This is a minor but annoying bug if you are writing a lot of dialog. The .lyx
> file looks correct, but the .ps file seems to have them inverted (if I am
> interpreting it properly). I can't tell on my display if the .tx file has them
> inverted as the marks are identical, three in a row.
> So, I don't know where in the chain this happens or how to fix it. Any ideas?
> I am using LyX 1.01 on Redhat 5.2. The program is excellent.
Just use the back-tick character ( ` ) and the apostrophe ( ' )
for the beginning and end quotes respectively, follow the LaTeX
convention - twice for a double quote character and once for a single quote
mark.
Demo in attached file. ( I've tried it, it works with version 1.0.3pre4 )
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell - Support Engineer - iOpen Technologies Ltd.
email - chris @ iopen . co . nz ( anti spam - join it up to use ).
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#This file was created by <chris> Tue Jun 22 10:32:36 1999
#LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team
\lyxformat 2.15
\textclass article
\language default
\inputencoding default
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
``He said `Forget it!' to me''
\layout Standard
or the other way around
\layout Standard
`He said ``Forget it!'' to me'
\the_end
