Hey all,
Been looking through the manual as well as options, i could SWEAR I knew where it was, also searched the help file. Can't find out how to turn off smart quotes!
Any tips appreciated
RonC
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Hey all,
Been looking through the manual as well as options, i could SWEAR I knew where it was, also searched the help file. Can't find out how to turn off smart quotes!
Any tips appreciated
RonC
The Help states:
"Smart Quotes
When you type quote ' or double quote " characters, Web Designer 9 Premium will automatically convert these into the more appropriate and aesthetically accurate opening or closing quotes. So this changes 'this' into 'this' and "quotes" into "quotes". It's smart enough to understand the use of single quotes within words to signify missing characters, so that 'don't' becomes 'don't'."
I don't recall seeing how to disable such.
A long time ago I used to quote right and then left for another application.
I now use Windows' Character Map and Select " (U+0022) and Copy back into Xara.
You can do the same with NotePad.
Acorn
you can disable it in the registry
How? And what if you want to use proper curly quotes and apostrophes and inch and foot marks?Quote:
you can disable it in the registry
if you want to do both, then it's probably best to do what Acorn suggested: leave Xara set at smart quotes and use character map for the 'unsmart' characters - I don't know of an easier way to do both in the program which is not a word processor and I would never dream of attempting to use it for such... note, some fonts may include at least a smart apostrophe if not smart quotes and so with those you could work the other way round, up to a point at least..
if you want to revert xara default to non-smart quotes then change the following registry key [only do this if you are sure you know what you are doing...]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Xara / XtremePro / 8.1 / Options / TextTool / UseSmartQuotes
a data value of 1 is the default for smart quotes, and a data value of 0 will revert the default to non-smart quotes...
the string value of 8.1 in the key string is for XDPX, if you have a different version of the program then it will be a different value there
This is going into Dear Xara.
The other method to use, when you have a numeric keypad is: press and hold the Alt type, type 034, release the Alt key.
Acorn
Alt 034 gives me curly quotes.
U+0027 works for the feet mark and U+0022 for inches.
This cannot be so hard to add as a keyboard shortcut.
[jokingly] ... maybe you should go metric...... :D
I tried this with XD11, but it doesn't seem to work. I've restarted the program, it should not be necessary to reboot should it?Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
It should work.
These are my Registry entries and they all have the same flavour:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\10\Options\TextTool
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\11\Options\TextTool
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\12\Options\TextTool
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\WebDesignerPremium x64\10\Options\TextTool
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\WebDesignerPremium x64\11\Options\TextTool
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\WebDesignerPremium x64\12\Options\TextTool
UseSmartQuotes takes the setting of 1 for on and 0 for off.
No need to reboot.
I would use the XaReg25 utility to avoid playing with the Registry: Xareg25 > Text: untick Smart Quotes.
Acorn
It would be nice to have some keyboard command to toggle this on and off so you can avoid things like the attached.
I resort to copy and paste from character map to get the tick marks instead of curly quotes but it should be easier, like Ctrl Alt . for a proper ellipse or Ctrl Alt c for ©, etc.
make sure that the program is closed before you do this, whether you do it with regedit or xareg, otherwise it will not work because the registry will not update whilst the program is open
I think that was the problem, it's working now. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
I've searched google but can't find anywhere to download it. Anyone got a link?Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
EDIT: Never mind, found it in Xara-Users Facebook group...
I'll second that.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
With the demise of Xara Users, it may have been shifted to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1236...c_location=ufi
As I don't use Facebook, I cannot confirm this link but it is visible on zaphodeist's TG Profile.
Acorn
Yep it's in XU at FB and in my sig :) ExpandXar there as well which might be useful