Is there a way to get the curved quotation marks in our note taking? When typing, I’m getting the straight quotation marks. When copying and pasting, I’m getting the curved ones. Can you see the difference?
See this thread for smart quotes. In Win 10 charmap is found under Fonts > Find a character.
Charmap can be hard to navigate to find exactly what you're looking for. Try ticking the "Advanced view" box. Then you can enter "double quotation" in the "Search for" box or select "Unicode Subrange" from the "Group by" box and select Punctuation from the popup.
If you are a keyboard user and don't mind memorizing some codes, you can enable hexpad in Windows. The easiest way is to open a command prompt (Windows Key, "cmd", <enter>) and paste the command below in to it, and press enter to execute it:
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Input Method" /v EnableHexNumpad /t REG_SZ /d 1
Reboot Windows and then from now on you can enter unicode anywhere by using its codepoint. Eg, hold Alt key while typing +201c (<plus-key-on-numberpad> two zero one c) for Left Double Quotation, +201d for Right Double Quotation.
This is all much more complicated than it ought to be and my explanation probably doesn't help. These instructions all assume Windows. Not sure about Mac.
Ideally, Faithlife would add the Alt-X command that Microsoft & Libreoffice use for entering unicode characters.
EDIT: This might be better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input
In my world, ideally there would be a radio button or check box for clicking smart quotes on and off.
Ideally, Faithlife would add the Alt-X command that Microsoft & Libreoffice use for entering unicode characters. In my world, ideally there would be a radio button or check box for clicking smart quotes on and off.
Absolutely right! Smart quotes should be a builtin option. But there are many other useful Unicode characters, so I still believe Alt-X is of good utility.
Your mention of smart quotes made me think of another class of tools that could work nicely here. Text substitution/expanders like AutoHotKey or PhraseExpress. Here are scripts for both:
6076.TxtExpanderScripts.zip
For AutoHotKey: (Windows Only)
The script will add itself to the Windows Startup folder so it will run every time Windows is started
For PhraseExpress: (Mac & Windows, but not sure of exact instructions for Mac)
For either of the above, the new shortcuts are:
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