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How to replace typewriter (straight) apostrophe with typographic (curly) apostrophe?

I have a manuscript I got off the Internet that has a bunch of isn?t's and wasn?t's and the like—due, I assume, to some miscommunication between MS Word's automatic curly quotes and the ASCII limits of ISO Latin 1. I tried doing a find-and-replace to put typographic apostrophes in place of the question marks. Pages found the question marks and put typewriter apostrophes in place of them, though I'd carefully entered a typographical apostrophe ((opt-shift-]) in the Replace field. So I tried again, to replace the typewriter apostrophes with typographical apostrophes. Pages now replaced the few typographical apostrophes I'd manually entered with typewriter apostrophes. Well, at least it's consistent. So far as Pages, Apple's flagship word-processing/page-layout app is concerned, there's apparently no such thing as a typographical apostrophe—something that was understood, as I recall, by the original MacWrite 25 years ago. So do I have to go back to doing all my editing in TextEdit (which seems to be much better at text work than Pages), or can somebody tell me how to persuade Pages to take care of this trifling little task correctly?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4GHz (2010), 4GB RAM, 320GB HD

Posted on May 28, 2012 6:23 PM

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Jun 2, 2012 10:34 PM in response to fruhulda

fruhulda wrote:

´ is an accent aigu (acute accent) used in french language.

True, and it could be easily mistaken for a Prime, but it's not the same character, and it doesn't come in a double or triple version:

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Acute accent: unicode 00B4 (HEX), part of the 'Extended Latin' set.


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Prime: unicode 2032 (HEX), part of the 'General Punctuation' category.

Followed by double prime, triple prime, reverse prime, reverse double time, and reverse triple prime.


Interesting stuff, if you're into correct typography.


Regards,

Barry

How to replace typewriter (straight) apostrophe with typographic (curly) apostrophe?

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