Trouble with quote (") character on LyX 2.3.6.2 (2021-01-07)

[Busch, Andreas]

Hi,

it’s been a while since I have last used LyX (a couple of years), but for a major project I come back to this great app. I used it in the past, and want to say how grateful I am to everyone contributing to this great piece of software!

Having just finished writing an article in German on my Mac (running on the most recent version of macOS 12.3.1), I discovered several strange problems that concern the quote character (") - Shift 2 on a German keyboard:

a) While I can write it in LyX, I cannot search for it. I can put it into the search box, but the LyX editor will not find quote marks in the document. (I know that under Document" -> Settings I can choose various types of quote signs; I left it to the standard, which (in German) means typographic quote marks.

b) Only the opening quote marks are being exported when I export my LyX document to either Word (XML) or Markdown format. Yes, I know it sounds strange, but that is how I discovered the problem. Everything works well when exporting the document to pdf (via LaTeX), but not in the other export formats.

So something seems amiss. Since I searched through the mailing list archive, I know that this hasn’t been mentioned here before, which puzzles me even more. Could any of you please confirm that you don’t have the problem - and then help me narrow down where the problem on my machine is?

I’d be so grateful!

Thanks and best wishes,

Andreas
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