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

[Kornel Benko]

Am Wed, 6 Apr 2022 05:55:59 +0200
schrieb Daniel via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>:

> 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
> 
> 

It should be a fix for the advanced search in lyx, not for the export.

	Kornel

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