[TxMt] Re: Curly quotes, single and double.

Daniel Barber d.barber at aleph-1.com
Mon Jul 14 21:13:53 UTC 2008


Thanks. I checked again and found them. The keyboard viewer is so  
small on my big monitor, that I was looking at the wrong keys!

d

On 14-Jul-08, at 5:11 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

> OK your keyboard layout must be different from mine, still, check the
> keyboard viewer, the characters are available via the OS...
>
> On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Daniel Barber wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but those characters are different than the curly quotes
>> produced by BBEdit when using its custom keys. With the option key
>> depressed while typing in TextMate I get the grave and acute accents
>> and diaeresis–I can confirm this by copying the resulting characters
>> into the search bar in Apple's character palette
>> The characters I am hoping to be able to type in are these:
>>
>> Left single quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2018/
>> Right single quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/
>> Left double quotation marl - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201c/
>> Right double quotation mark - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201d/
>>
>> Does anyone know how to type these in directly without having to use
>> HTML entities?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> d
>>
>> On 14-Jul-08, at 4:34 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>>
>>> Checking the keyboard viewer reveals that option-[ and option-] is
>>> what you are after. Best, Mark
>>> On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Daniel Barber wrote:
>>>
>>>> New TextMate user coming from BBEdit. How do I enter single or
>>>> double
>>>> curly quotes? In BBEdit it is option-' or shift+option-", but I
>>>> can't
>>>> figure it out in TextMate. I typeset a lot of content while coding,
>>>> and knowing how would be a huge timesaver.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> d
>>>>
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