Project Settings: Add a Straight Quotes/Smart (Curly) Quotes Toggle

11 votes

When I'm typing in Dabble, it automatically uses smart/curly quotes. However, I prefer to use straight quotes and use them elsewhere, so when I paste in from elsewhere my documents become a mess of straight and curly/smart quotes.

Can we get a toggle to disable smart quotes under the project preferences?

Under consideration Suggested by: Emma (25 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 17 Mar, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

17 May, '20
Johannes Rexx
Let me throw my vote in with this suggestion. My sense is that ProWritingAid is doing the lifting behind the scenes so hopefully it can be passed a flag to "don't check quotations". That of course leaves a potential mess of straight and smart quotation marks. The real problem is that Dabble does not automatically fix the problem for the writer. So a corollary suggestion is another menu item to "straighten all quotation marks" or "make curly all quotation marks."
26 Feb, '22
Matches
Still begging for this toggle—well over a year since I began. When I'm writing, smart/curly quotes are so visually distracting I return to a text editor, time and again, over Dabble.
11 Aug, '22
Woldry
I'll voice my support for this as well! There are still publishers who want smart/curly quotes turned off for submissions, and it's a nuisance to have to open my exported novel in a separate word processor to search-and-replace curly quotes. It's also really annoying when Dabble changes a leading apostrophe (such as in 'tis or 'rona) to a curly single quote.