Hi,
It's simply a visual thing. It makes quotation marks angle one way for open
quotes and the opposite way for closing quotes, thus framing the quoted text in
a visually appealing fashion. The global setting also changes period period
period into an ellipsis and dash dash into en-dash as a single entry. In many
ways, it's no big deal from either prospective since most sighted folks scan
over such things rather quickly when reading.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. What are these smart quotes exactly? I want to understand what the
> consequence is for turning them off. I don't really understand what they are
> and what happens if you don't use them. I believe I hear these sometimes in
> Safari. I would have to pay attention again though. I used to find them
> annoying but now I block them out and so I am not positive if I hear them in
> Safari anymore. :)
>
> Christina
> On Jul 29, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I mentioned, you can disable them globally or just for specific apps.
>>
>> 1. To disable them globally.
>>
>> * Go to System Preferences.
>> * Open the Keyboard pane.
>> * Activate the Text tab.
>> * Navigate to the "Use Smart Quotes and Dashes" checkbox and uncheck it.
>> * Close your System Prefs.
>>
>> Smart Quotes will be disabled across all apps that support this feature.
>>
>> or...
>>
>> 2. To disable/enable Smart Quotes and more for specific apps. For example,
>> Mail or TextEdit.
>>
>> * Up to the Edit menu.
>> * Down to Substitutions.
>> * Right to the sub-menu.
>> * Uncheck the options you wish to uncheck.
>>
>> That should do it.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Later...
>>
>> Tim Kilburn
>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Gabe Griffith <gabrielgriff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Not to sound like an imbecile, but how would you do what you talked about?
>>> I have this happen as well and would be interested in disabling the smart
>>> quotes.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gabe
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Smart Quotes is usually on by default in Mavericks. So, the word "you're"
>>>> will likely be placing an angled right apostrophe which VO will announce
>>>> as such. To the sighted person, this sort of thing looks fine, but to the
>>>> VO user, it sounds odd when listening. You can turn off Smart Quotes for
>>>> all apps that support it from within the Text tab of the Keyboard pane of
>>>> System Preferences. Or, you can turn it off for specific apps by going
>>>> under the Edit menu, Substitutions and unchecking Smart Quotes for the
>>>> given app that supports it. I usually just leave it on for most apps but
>>>> have turned it off for TextEdit so that things work properly when pasting
>>>> stuff into Terminal from TextEdit.
>>>>
>>>> HTH.
>>>>
>>>> Later...
>>>>
>>>> Tim Kilburn
>>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You know, that would make sense, except this is happening in words like
>>>>> you're, it's, there's. It's happening with all the words that I just
>>>>> typed.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Donna
>>>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Tyler Spivey <tspi...@pcdesk.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It might be smart quotes.
>>>>>> Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you
>>>>>> want to turn them off.
>>>>>> For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark
>>>>>> ('), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either " or "
>>>>>> depending on which end of the quotation you type.
>>>>>> On 7/29/2014 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For some time now I've noticed that when I type an apostrophe,
>>>>>>> Voiceover is speaking back to me that I typed a single right quotation
>>>>>>> mark. What's going on here? And what is it actually typing? I can
>>>>>>> get it to say "apostrophe" if I hit the key twice, then the second
>>>>>>> press gives me an apostrophe, and then I can go back and delete the
>>>>>>> first keystroke which is the single quotation, but that's just
>>>>>>> ludicrous! Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a solution?
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>>
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