Re: st: Seeing Double - issues with quotation marks

[Daniel Miller <danielpmiller@gmail.com>]

You have to change the way the Word handles the " ".

In Word 2007 for Windows,click on the office symbol, and click on "Word
Options"
Under the "Proofing" sub-menu, click on "AutoCorrect Options"
click the "AutoFormat as you type" tab
and uncheck the replace "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" option.

Sorry, I don't know the exact process for Mac Word, but it should be
relatively similar.
You may have to go through and find and replace all old quote marks before
re-pasting into the do-file.

Dan


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Craig, Benjamin M. <
Benjamin.Craig@moffitt.org> wrote:

> I made the error of cutting and pasting text from Microsoft into the
> Do-file Editor of Stata MP 9.2 (Stata 11 should arrive any day now).
> Now, whenever I type a double quotation mark, the symbol is no longer
> the apl double quotation mark (HTML coding entity &quot;). Instead, it
> is a common quotation mark (&rdquo). For examples, see
> http://www.intuitive.com/coolweb/entities.html
>
> The common quotation version is not recognized by Stata, and you get the
> ironic error:
>
> '"A"' found where almost anything else expected
>
> Two simple fixes are to restart stata (which reverts to the APL) or copy
> an old apl quotation mark and pasted when you need a quotation. I found
> that if I simply open another editor, the new editor still uses the
> common quotation marks (&rdquo).
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and might Stata fix it in the next
> release?
>
> At least by posting this the next person will know why they are
> frustrated.
>
> Ben
>
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