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• • November 25, 2023 at 8:30 am #14397467
    Rich Harvey

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    An author proofread his manuscript and sent it to me. I placed the text inside InDesign, ran my usual paragraph formatting shortcuts. The I noticed he had written, “Give ’em hell!” with the single quote facing the wrong direction. When I changed it, I got what the glyph menu describes as a “Singe left-pointing angle quotation mark.” If I back-space over double quotes (like dialogue) and type them again, I get a double-pointy thing.

    Is there a method of using GREP to remove this odd pointers before this book goes into print? Perhaps this is a case of “Leave well enough alone,” but I’d rather replace them all with conventional typographer’s quotes. I’m concerned that once the book is uploaded to Amazon or anyplace else, these lurking “pointing angles” will surface and warrant a complete do-over.

  • November 25, 2023 at 9:33 am #14397469
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Check what language the text is set to?
    If it’s French or something else that uses chevron quotes, InDesign replaces ‘ and ” with the chevron style. Ditto for German with low opening and high closing quotes.

  • November 25, 2023 at 11:56 am #14397472
    Rich Harvey

    Participant

    Seems like English …

  • November 25, 2023 at 12:48 pm #14397475
    David Blatner

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    There are two places to look:
    First: Check the “Dictionary” section of Preferences dialog box. What are the single- and double-quote options set to?
    Second: select the text and check what language it’s set to in the character formatting section of the Control panel (or Character or Properties panel). If it’s set to, say, “French,” then you’ll get different quotes than if it’s set to English.

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