Unmatched "Quotes"?
smilinggoat
Mac OS X 10.5.3. It's a great little editor, however, whenever I have
to type quotes " in an html (or other) document, I get a notification
saying 'Unmatched '"' ' with the quotes being the inverted kind at the
end of a quotation. I have to copy plain quotation marks from a
previous place in the document in order to use them. How can I solve
this? Can I get BBEdit or TextWrangler to recognize my mac's quotes
as neither opening nor closing quotes but neutral quotation marks?
Thanks!
Rich Siegel
>I've tried using both TextWrangler and BBEdit on my MacBook Pro with
>Mac OS X 10.5.3. It's a great little editor, however, whenever I have
>to type quotes " in an html (or other) document, I get a notification
>saying 'Unmatched '"' ' with the quotes being the inverted kind at the
>end of a quotation.
It sounds like you turned on the "Smart quotes" preference at
some point (Preferences -> Editor Defaults). Turn that off (or
turn it off per-document using the options popup in a given
document's toolbar) to get ordinary quotes.
R.
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of a quotation," do you mean you are getting smart quotes (sometimes
called “curly quotes” like the ones I just added around the phrase
“curly quotes”).
If so, then check your Editor Defaults in your BBEdit Preferences.
Turn them off if they're turned on. In addition, check to see that
Smart Quotes is turned off in the Text Options icon that sits in the
toolbar at the top of your BBEdit window.
That way you'll be able to type regular, non-curly quotes in your HTML
document.
David Kelly
Try disabling BBEdit Preferences -> Editor Defaults -> Smart quotes.
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