Re: Encoding of double quotes by Vim

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 07:19:40 -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
>
> I write in Vim and when ready to format/publish dump documents in LyX
> for formatting as LaTeX documents. When I do so, double quotes show up
> in LyX with closing quotes at the beginning and end of the quote. When
> dumped in a word processor, opening and closing quotes are identical as
> well, but they are the vertical quotation marks, not the ones that curve
> in and out that is standard in LyX. I'm guess the latter is what is
> meant by "smart quotes."
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to change the encoding of double quotes
> in Vim so they don't get translated the way they do in LyX.
>

As Tony puts, it should be an issue of LyX rather than Vim. However I
want to add that LyX use LaTeX as its backend and LaTeX has its rule of
typesetting quotes. You need to use `(backtick, or the grave sign) and
'(single quote) to specify a beginning quote and a closing quote. And
for the double quotes you need to say `` and ''(not " sign).

Hope this helps.

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