This question has been asked, in different forms perhaps,
many times on
this forum. Were one to be uncharitable, one may mistake the
brevity of
A's response below for unwarranted sarcasm; for the sake of
MN, the
original requester, this question deserves a proper answer.
To insert "smart quotes" into any version of
endnote one does, indeed,
type them. This answer is more helpful if it informs the
reader that in
order to type them into a program other than word, one
either needs to
use a keyboard layout which supports them (such as some
proprietary
layouts available for Windows and some standard ones for
Mac) or (on a
PC) hold down Alt while typing 0147 or 0148 on the numeric
keypad. 0145
and 0146 will give single quotes. Alternatively, one can
generate the
character in question in Word and copy and paste into
Endnote.
As to MN's gripe about "the only place [in my document]
where 'straight'
single and double quotation marks appears is in EndNote
generated
references", we can do far better than simply
suggesting Auto Format;
this won't "fix" the problem anyway, as the
"smart" quotes will revert
to "straight" ("dumb?") ones at each
EN-generated format.
To ensure that the quotes always come out "curly",
replace the
"straight"
characters with curly ones in the templates (in-text,
footnotes, and
bibliography) in your chosen endnote output-style.
(Edit/Output
Styles/Edit <Style Name>; Citations/Templates,
Bibliography/Templates,
Footnotes/Templates). This will not only withstand CWYW's
reformats, it
also avoids a dependence on a particular word processor's
"smart"
capabilities.
It also transcends which word processor you are using, which
version of
endnote, and what operating system.
I'm actually surprised Endnote's programmers did not
automatically use
"smart quotes" (the Unicode names are "Left
Double Quotation Mark" and
"Right Double Quotation Mark") as defaults in
their templates. I have
long ago replaced mine, along with dashes (0150) instead of
hyphens,
em-dashes
(0151) instead of the piddly little things which are meant
to indicate a
repeated author name in subsequent entries in a
bibliography, and so on
Michael Power
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:20:33 -0500
From: Alex[lists lexial.ca]
Subject: Re: Smart Quotation Marks [was:
endnote-interest-digest V1
#2169]
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On Feb 5, 2007, at 16:34, Michael.Neugarten[mneugartengmail.com] wrote:
> [...] How can I insert smart quotation marks into
reference entries in
> EndNote X?
By typing them.
> My document uses smart quotation marks, and the only
place where
> 'straight' single and double quotation marks appears is
in EndNote
> generated references. [...]
...And you ask how to fix this? It depends on the word
processor. For
instance, in MS Word the fastest method is Auto-Format.
(Folks, you're really helping yourself if you specify
precisely which
version of EndNote, which operating system, and which word
processor you
are using.)
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