Esa Karjalainen's C&C makes me want to read this story. There's just one
problem--the smart quotes. Smart quotes are a feature of MS Word that turns
ASCII standard quote marks into curly quotes that point up or down based on
their position. They look rather nice in Windows. However, some of us have
gotten fed up with Microsoft and switched to Linux. Here's a short snippet to
show what other OSs do to smart quotes:
?Hey, Ranchan! Hey, Akane!?
?Hi, Ucchan!? Ranma called back to his friend.
?Hey, you guys wanna study with me for finals? I know we still have over
two weeks, but I want to do well...? Ukyou asked.
?I?m up for it. How ?bout you, Akane??
Akane looked a little perturbed. Then she softened and replied, ?I guess
so...?. After all, Ukyou had asked her, as well as Ranma. That meant she
wasn?t just trying to get Ranma alone. Although, why should she care if
Ukyou wanted that baka {right...}, anyway?
?Great! How about tonight at 6:00? I can make us dinner!? Ukyou beamed.
Snip rest of story. I'm sure you get the idea by now. I stopped trying to
wade through these things and figure out what they're supposed to be well
before the half-way point.
Here's how you fix it:
1) Under the tools menu click on AutoCorrect.
2) Switch to the "AutoFormat as you type" tab.
3) Uncheck the "Replace 'straight quotes' with 'smart quotes'" box.
Unchecking "Replace format characters with real formatting" would also be a
good idea if you intend to use astericks or underscores to indicate certain
things within the context of your stories. Also consider unchecking "Replace
symbol characters with symbols." I _think_ emdashes, fractions, etc. would be
converted back upon saving as plain text, but smart quotes aren't, so who
knows?
4) Click Okay.
Would you mind sending me a copy of the story after this has been taken care
of? Thank you.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. The answer is
NO--Linux.
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