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- Smart Quotes version 1.51
- © Sam Kington 25th July 1995
-
- This program is shareware, *not* public domain or freeware. You are allowed
- to evaluate this program free of charge for a period of two weeks; after
- that, you should destroy it if you do not intend to use it, or pay the
- registration fee to carry on using it. The registered version has more
- features than the free version, so there’s a carrot *and* a stick ;-).
-
- About this program
- ******************
-
- Smart Quotes, now in its sixth installment, is a small utility to help you
- make your documents look more professional, by replacing quotation marks or
- other combinations of characters by their more typographically appropriate
- versions. If you type a double quote (") or a single quote (') it will
- replace it by the appropriate typographically correct quote (open “ or closed
- ” rather than neutral "). It will also try to correct typos: if you
- accidentally type “SOmething LIke THis”, it will replace it by “Something
- Like This”. Last, but by no means least, it can replace short sequences of
- characters by others, like Impression’s abbreviation facility, which allows
- you to type ligatures (fi, Œ), accents (é, Ç) and other characters (×,÷,—)
- without using the Alt key. It actually goes further than this, as it can also
- ensure commas are always before quotes, remove any extraneous spaces after
- full stops, and even (if you really want it to) ROT13 your text.
-
- Some facilities are not available in the unregistered version – see the
- file “Versions” for more details.
-
- Mouse clicks
- ************
-
- There are quite a few things you can do by clicking the mouse on the
- Smart Quotes icon, so here is a complete list:
-
- Select Open and close settings window
- Adjust Disable and re-enable substitution
- Shift-click Disable and re-enable quotes substitution
- Ctrl-click Disable and re-enable expand substitution
- Alt-click Disable and re-enable typo checking
- Shift-Ctrl: Select drags the icon around, repositioning it on the icon
- bar or “tearing off” a floating window.
- Adjust switches between the icon bar and the floating window.
-
- You can also do the following things by clicking on the Close icon of
- Smart Quotes' windows:
- Select Closes window (standard RISC OS behaviour)
- Adjust Opens Choices directory
- Shift-Select Iconises window (standard RISC OS behaviour)
- Shift-Adjust Runs !Chars (or whatever application has been set up)
- Ctrl-Select Closes all Smart Quotes’ windows
- Ctrl-Adjust As Adjust
-
- NB: Because the “Other choices” window is actually “owned” by a separate
- program, Ctrl-Select on its close icon will not close the other windows, and
- Ctrl-Select on another window’s close icon will not close the “Other choices”
- window.
-
- Clicking on the expand window will edit the expand underneath the
- pointer.
-
- Other files you should read
- ***************************
-
- All these files are in the “Docs” directory.
-
- “Manual” contains a lot more about Smart Quotes, but you don’t have to
- read it all.
-
- “Changes” tells you what changed since the last version, 1.25.
-
- “Versions” outlines the differences between the unregistered and shareware
- versions. If you intend to use this, you should register!
-
- “Register” tells you how to register.