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

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Wed Apr 6 03:55:59 UTC 2022


On 2022-04-05 17:03, Kornel Benko via lyx-users wrote:
> 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.

As for this problem, it is https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11462, right? 
I have just suggested a way to resolve it at the ticket. Maybe you want 
to chip in if you have further thoughts.

>> 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.

I couldn't find those two formats in the export dialog. Please remind me 
where I can find them. I succeeded in exporting with "HTML (MS Word)". 
There I see both quotes (beginning and end) but they are actually not 
Word's typical double quotes. So that is possibly another bug.

>> 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

Just to be sure, this is a fix for (part of) a) but not b), right?

Daniel




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