[texworks] Smart quotes?

[Jonathan Kew]

Hi Bruno,

I have a suspicion this might be related to the French keyboard layout - it sounds like your grave (`) is a "dead key", and the Qt editor has some issues with these on the Mac (I think this has come up previously). If you try changing to an English layout, where the ` key does not act as a dead key but just inserts a spacing grave mark, does the problem persist?

(Obviously, I'm not suggesting this is an acceptable solution for you, it's just a way to check whether this really is the dead-key issue you're seeing.)

JK

On 11 Aug 2010, at 16:07, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Setup: Mac OS X 10.6.4, TeXworks 0.3r567.
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> Every time I am attempting to write a backquote ` followed by a word, TeXworks insists on inserting a space between the two.
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> Example: I'm trying to write
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> 	We replaced `infinitesimal' by `infinitely small' and `infinite' by `infinitely large'
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> but TeXworks makes it
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> 	We replaced ` infinitesimal' by ` infinitely small' and ` infinite' by ` infinitely large'
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> More precisely, it seems to me the way to input such things is type a grave accent ` then space (so as to get the grave accent by itself) then the following text. Typing ` then the space is OK, it yields a grave accent by itself, but then when I type the following text TeXworks inserts suddenly a space on its own initiative.
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> The Smart Quotes mode is set to Off in TeXworks Preferences > Editor. Am I missing something elementary?
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> Bruno Voisin
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