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• • November 24, 2017 at 1:24 pm #99860
    Brad Grigor

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    Can anyone point me to a script that will fix the punctuation of contractions (and possessives). Especially when importing from Word documents, contractions and possessives come in with single right quotation marks instead of a bona fide apostrophes. As part of final clean up, I’d like to sweep through the book and change them to apostrophes.

    I have attempted this with GREP, but the large number of contraction variations has me stymied, e.g. ‘t, ‘s, ‘ll, ‘ve, ‘re, ‘m, ’tis, etc.

    Thanks.

    Cheers!

  • November 24, 2017 at 6:22 pm #99874
    Lindsey Martin

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    When you import from MSWord, do you choose Show Import Options and check Options > Use Typographer’s Quotes?

  • November 24, 2017 at 11:54 pm #99876
    Brad Grigor

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    Hi, Lindsey. Yes, I do that sometimes, not always (it depends on how “ugly” the source document is). It requires a secret Ctrl-Z trick (or the Insert > Symbols menu) to force an apostrophe in Word so writers tend not to do it (or certainly not consistently). I don’t think “Use Typographer’s Quotes” can sort that out.

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