Control Curly Quotes
QuarkXPress will automatically convert straight quotes to curly quotes as you type them, if you enable the Smart Quotes option in the Input Settings section of Preferences. (It’s on by default.)
If you want to type in some straight quotes, you can override this feature by simply holding down the Control key as you type the quotation mark or apostrophe.
The reverse is also true: if, for some reason, you prefer to type straight quotes, you can change that setting in Preferences. Then, if you want to type a curly quote, hold down the Control key as you type the quotation mark
or apostrophe.
One of the things I like about Quark’s handling of curly quotes is its sophistication: for example, it knows to use an apostrophe before a number, such as ’09, rather than an (incorrect) opening single quote.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Jay, when I copy text from Word 2007 and paste it into QX 6.5 I get strait quotes, but in the Word doc you can visually see that they are curly, I have checked “smart Quotes” its driving me up the wall. Any thoughts?
If you’re using a Mac, you’ll find Preferences under the QuarkXPress menu. On Windows, it’s under the Edit menu.
Max: copying and pasting will always give you straight quotes. You need to “import” the text to get curly quotes (File> Import).
To fix the quotes on some text that’s already in a Quark document, just search and replace (Edit> Find/Change) all single quotes with a single quote, and all double quotes with a double quote. Quark will replace the straight quotes with appropriate curly quotes.
“To fix the quotes on some text that’s already in a Quark document, just search and replace (Edit> Find/Change) all single quotes with a single quote, and all double quotes with a double quote. Quark will replace the straight quotes with appropriate curly quotes.”
thanks, that’s brilliant “””