InDesign How-to Video: Make Curly Quotes
Are you stuck with straight quotes, when what you wanted in your document was curly quotes? Well lucky for you, in this week’s InDesign Secrets video, David Blatner shows an easy way to make sure your document’s quotes automatically appear as those curly (aka typographer’s) quotes. Even if you import text with straight quotes, he will show us a super easy way to automatically change them to curly quotes.
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David–that works–but what about single quotes? I know it’s the same idea (i.e., search and replace), but sometimes you have words with a closed single quote in front of it (i.e., rock ’n’ roll), or “go get ’em.”
A single closing quote is wanted there.
Smart quotes (that’s what I call typographical quotes) are great, but it’s the single ones that can be problematic.
Any thoughts on that? I mean, a search and replace for a single would put in a single opening quote in those cases.
I mainly ask because I get a lot of jobs from the UK where I have to Americanize the punctuation (i.e., single to double quotes and vice versa, and putting punctuation such as periods and commas before the quotes). Right now I do search and replaces, but it’s not fool proof.
Thoughts?