Reply To: Smart Quotes Not So Smart

A couple of issues here.

[1] What style are you using? I don’t know of any style guide that recommends a ‘straight apostrophe’ (I assume you mean Unicode x0027) to mark contractions and possesives rather than x2019.

[2] For numbers, David’s keyboard toggle does not help because I assume you want primes (x2032 and x2033) and InDesign, when typographers’ quotes are turned off, will insert x0027 and x0022. Indeed, not all fonts supply primes: for example, Adobe Text Pro does, but Chaparral Pro does not. I can’t think of an automatic way to fix this as ID would need to distinguish between numbers needing single primes and those needing doubles, but a GREP style in your paragraph styles that inserted a searchable marker after all numerals might get you half way there.