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GREP to find numbers with curly quotation marks

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    • March 21, 2010 at 10:49 am #55204
      Cindy Kelley
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      Hi,

      I would like to be able to change any digit followed by a curly quotation mark to a straight quotation mark.

      Ideally this would be both single and double to represent both feet and inches but mostly I am dealing with inches so I'd be happy with just the double quotation mark.

      Thanks to anyone who can help me with this GREP solution.

      Happy Sunday!

      cindy

    • March 22, 2010 at 3:22 pm #55226
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      (Having a slight deja-vu — GREP with hyphens with various numbers? But let me repeat it here, in case someone else has the exact same question.)

      Search for

      (?<=d)”

      Replace with

      ~”

      The search works because it looks for “a digit on the left”, followed by any sort of double quote — typing ” in a Search expression will have InDesign automatically look for both straight and curly, both open and closed, double quotes.

      The replace works because usually InDesign automatically translates a single ” into the required open or closed double curly quote, but the notation ~” means it should not do that and insert a literal double “.

    • March 22, 2010 at 3:23 pm #55227
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      I forgot the editor eats lonely backslashes for dinner. That ought to be

      (?<=d)”

      Now it's real easy to find out how to do this with single quotes :-D

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