Forum Discussion
Curly quotes in Rise
Is there a reason why double and single quotes always appear straight when typed directly into Rise (' and " vs ‘ and “)? I can only get curly quotes if the content is pasted in from another application.
Yes, "curly" quotes are the correct way to use quotes--also "curly" apostrophes. "Straight" quotes are really inch marks and "straight" apostrophes are foot marks. It is tedious and time consuming to have to go through our Rise courses and copy and paste real quote marks and apostrophes into our courses. Please make "curly" quotes the standard.
I would also like to have the "curly" quotes as the default.
Any update on adding a "Smart Quote" (Curly Quote) feature to Rise--hopefully making them standard? Since you can't search and replace, it is very time consuming to change them in our training. We work with major universities that agree that using smart quotes is the correct way.
There is a legitimate use for straight quotes and apostrophes. In the math world, those are the short-hand for feet and inches. Curly quotes are never acceptable in this use, so ideally there would be some way to have both.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, Mona!
We don't have any updates to share at this time, but we'll be sure to update this thread with any news in the future!
Hey, can I disable smart quotes in any way? It's messing up my training. I work for a software company, and smart quotes are NOT the standard (quite the opposite) and my only fix (so far) is to paste a normal quotation mark in from a basic text editor. It's very annoying!
Devin, that's probably the best way to force a regular quote instead of a smart quote. But it sounds like you might be inserting a code sample- I was working on something similar and wasn't able to use a monospace font but found a workaround, is that what you're doing? I'd like to see your example if you can share.
