Some on on Mellel forum have noticed that in some instances BE uses straight quotes in formatting, and in others curly (typographers') quotes. For example, in Formats Manager > Formatting Options, Chicago 15th A encloses title of a journal article in straight quotes, whereas MLA uses curly ones to do the same.
Is this intentional?
Would it be possible for preferences to control this?
Thanks
curly or straight?
Re: curly or straight?
Hi,
It's not intentional -- the use of straight or smart quotes is a matter of taste and not required by the style, AFAIK. In any case, I've modified the Chicago format to use smart quotes and uploaded that to the ftp site, if you want it (it's also in the distribution package now). It's easy enough to edit what you have now, too. On a US keyboard, a smart open quote is Option-[, and a smart close quote is Shift-Option-[
Jon
Sonny Software
It's not intentional -- the use of straight or smart quotes is a matter of taste and not required by the style, AFAIK. In any case, I've modified the Chicago format to use smart quotes and uploaded that to the ftp site, if you want it (it's also in the distribution package now). It's easy enough to edit what you have now, too. On a US keyboard, a smart open quote is Option-[, and a smart close quote is Shift-Option-[
Jon
Sonny Software