Re: Smart Quotation Marks [was: endnote-interest-digest V1

Re: Smart Quotation Marks [was: endnote-interest-digest V1
Author: Michael    Posted: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:08:59 -0400
This question has been asked, in different forms perhaps, many times on this forum. Were one to be uncharitable, one may mistake the brevity of A's response below for unwarranted sarcasm; for the sake of MN, the original requester, this question deserves a proper answer. To insert "smart quotes" into any version of endnote one does, indeed, type them. This answer is more helpful if it informs the reader that in order to type them into a program other than word, one either needs to use a keyboard layout which supports them (such as some proprietary layouts available for Windows and some standard ones for Mac) or (on a PC) hold down Alt while typing 0147 or 0148 on the numeric keypad. 0145 and 0146 will give single quotes. Alternatively, one can generate the character in question in Word and copy and paste into Endnote. As to MN's gripe about "the only place [in my document] where 'straight' single and double quotation marks appears is in EndNote generated references", we can do far better than simply suggesting Auto Format; this won't "fix" the problem anyway, as the "smart" quotes will revert to "straight" ("dumb?") ones at each EN-generated format. To ensure that the quotes always come out "curly", replace the "straight" characters with curly ones in the templates (in-text, footnotes, and bibliography) in your chosen endnote output-style. (Edit/Output Styles/Edit <Style Name>; Citations/Templates, Bibliography/Templates, Footnotes/Templates). This will not only withstand CWYW's reformats, it also avoids a dependence on a particular word processor's "smart" capabilities. It also transcends which word processor you are using, which version of endnote, and what operating system. I'm actually surprised Endnote's programmers did not automatically use "smart quotes" (the Unicode names are "Left Double Quotation Mark" and "Right Double Quotation Mark") as defaults in their templates. I have long ago replaced mine, along with dashes (0150) instead of hyphens, em-dashes (0151) instead of the piddly little things which are meant to indicate a repeated author name in subsequent entries in a bibliography, and so on Michael Power ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:20:33 -0500 From: /> Subject: Re: Smart Quotation Marks [was: endnote-interest-digest V1 #2169] Sender: /> Precedence: bulk Reply-To: /> On Feb 5, 2007, at 16:34, wrote: > [...] How can I insert smart quotation marks into reference entries in > EndNote X? By typing them. > My document uses smart quotation marks, and the only place where > 'straight' single and double quotation marks appears is in EndNote > generated references. [...] ...And you ask how to fix this? It depends on the word processor. For instance, in MS Word the fastest method is Auto-Format. (Folks, you're really helping yourself if you specify precisely which version of EndNote, which operating system, and which word processor you are using.) <0x0192>

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