[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 48, Issue 1

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 1, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> But what I want is a way to type "some text" and have it changed -- preferably automatically -- to the LaTeX form ``some text''.
> 
> How?
> 
> Surely this is a desirable, even essential, feature of any LaTeX-friendly editor?
> 
> Or have I once again been spoiled by WinEdt under Windows, which of course makes that substitution if you enable to preference for it.
> 

Howdy,

Ummm... why would you want to write "some stuff" to begin with? Why not use the Key Binding and the when you type " you will get ``|'' where | is the position of the Cursor? If some text is selected that will be between the `` and '' too.

By the way, I'll bet it's very easy to confuse the automatic insertion! What would it do with "it is wrong to use `"' in TeX" ?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)