I did a cursory search, but didn’t find anything. Hoping someone can help.
I have multiple projects that I am working on at the moment, and this appears to happen in some projects, but not in others, so thinking I am missing a setting somewhere.
When I am typing new text inside an existing document, by default, single quotes and double-quotation marks are being inserted as ‘straight/plain/dumb’ quotes. I want them as “smart”, or ‘curly’.
I know I can use – and I do – the Edit/Transformations/Convert Quotes to Smart Quotes, but is there a way to make this happen automatically?
I clearly have some OCD tendencies, since despite knowing I can just type what I need to, and do one transformation at the end, I just cannot let it stand!
So I am constantly jumping into the above menu, and doing the conversion, and wasting time doing it.
I have the Edit/Substitutions/Smart Quotes ticked - am I misunderstanding that? Should it be unchecked?
My thinking was having it checked would automatically do the conversion?
Checking and unchecking it, doesn’t appear to make a difference at the moment - but maybe I need to close and restart Scrivener?
Is there any chance you are in script mode (if so, no word count will appear in the footer bar and instead there will be a menu button for script elements on the right).
You have everything set up correctly, so it should be working. However, we have had spontaneous reports of either smart quotes or spell-checking not working for a couple of years now, but we have as yet been able to reproduce it on any of our machines or find a cause.
One thing to check: are you using page view? If so, if you turn off page view, quit and restart Scrivener, does it work then?
I am not in Script mode, but am using the Pages view.
Switching if off, quitting Scrivener, and then restarting, sorted the problem.
Switching Page view on again, after the restart, also sees it behaving as expected.
It does happen across various projects, but it probably gets sorted each time I close Scrivener on the Mac, for the purposes of my prolonged use of Scrivener over on iOS – which might explain it only occurring periodically, and in different Projects.
Pity that I cannot be of much assistance in terms of it being reproduced that side - but if a restart fixes it, then its not the end of the world. Thank you for the prompt assistance!
Thanks for the information! Sometimes - but even this doesn’t seem to be consistent - there seems to be something about the UI settings in the project that causes a glitch. So turning page view off and back on again either side of a reload might have cleared that glitch.
If you can find a way to reproduce it - a series of steps that always results in the quotes not working - I would be very grateful if you could report back. There must be some very specific sequence somewhere that is triggering the issue.
I seem to be having a weird glitch. I’m using the newest update, Scrivener 3.0.3, on a MacBook Pro running Sierra.
I’ve opened an old file. In Preferences|Corrections, the “smart quotes” box is unchecked. I’ve cut-and-pasted some text that uses straight quotes.
Whenever I click into a work inside quotation marks and change it, or add type, Scrivener takes half a second and then converts the nearby quotes into smart quotes. This is the opposite of what I need and is kinda driving me nuts!
Note that the setting in Preferences is “Use smart quotes in new projects”. The setting can also be turned on or off for individual projects using Edit > Substitutions > Smart Quotes. Make sure the setting is turned off there in your project.
As you’re on a Mac, you don’t have to use the degree mark (’ or ") or a Scrivener process to convert these to curly quotes. You can just type type curly quotes by using the keyboard:
Alt + ] produces an opening single curly quote ( ’ )
Alt + Shift + ] produces a closing single curly quote ( ’ )
Alt + [ produces an opening double curly quote ( “ )
Alt + Shift + [ produces a closing double curly quote ( ” )
Much obliged. It is still taking a while to change the muscle-memory, but I do try and use the above as much as possible when typing.
My challenge lands when I am dictating the text, or copying or pasting from work I have written elsewhere.
That said, the fix above works in those instances when the transformation is not automatic.
I am having the same problem. I pasted text in with quotes, and they will not convert. Restarting doesn’t help. Page view or not, doesn’t matter. Latest Mac OS.
