Re: Encoding of double quotes by Vim

On Aug 5, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Alick Zhao wrote:

> 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).

Thanks, Alick. So using backticks in Vim would avoid the problem in LyX I'll give it a try.

From my communication with the LyX folks I understand there's been a long-standing request for addressing this issue, and more generally to provide more flexibility in the use of commas. Again, as I understand it, I think they're talking about getting LyX to use a LaTeX package called 'csquote.' People seem to be saying it wouldn't be that difficult.

Apart from that, it's been suggested that I might be able to make use of the package myself. I've looked at the documentation, but don't have a good sense of what the possibilities might be yet.

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