[OS X TeX] New? Preference in Mavericks

[Michael Sharpe]

On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Nov 11, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:
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>> Folks,
>> 
>> Warning in case someone asks:
>> 
>> Yesterday a TeXShop user complained that TeXShop on
>> Mavericks converts -- into a dash. Today I got a similar
>> complaint about double quotes. 
>> 
>> It turns out that on Mavericks,
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>> 	System Preferences --> Keyboard Panel --> Text Tab
>> 
>> leads to a preference item I had not seen before, "Use smart
>> quotes and dashes". Turning this off cured the problem.
>> 
>> Dick Koch
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Interestingly, that item is checked on my system but I'm not seeing the automatic conversion. I thought it might be because I use a monospace font but changing to Times didn't change things at all.
> 
> Wait... you can change that for an individual applications by (un)checking Smart Quotes and/or Smart Dashes under Edit->Substitutions. I've got them unchecked there.
> 

Just a small clarification. With all items in TeXShop's Edit->Substitutions unchecked, you don't get conversions within TeXShop's main text editor. However, the behavior in the Macro Editor seems to ignore TeXShop's Edit->Substitutions settings and follows the System Preferences --> Keyboard Panel --> Text Tab settings instead. Thanks to Dick for tracking this down.

Michael