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

[Kornel Benko]

Am Tue, 5 Apr 2022 13:50:38 +0000
schrieb "Busch, Andreas via lyx-users" <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>:

> 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

Andreas, thanks for the report. At least for upcoming lyx2.4 and with advanced find
it will be no problem. Committing the fix now.

	Kornel

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