How to put typographic quotation marks on a mac. What are quotation marks and how to put them on the keyboard

By default, Pages moves words that don't fit on a line to the next line. Instead, you can set these words to wrap as you type. This setting can be set for the entire document or specific paragraphs. You can also add or remove hyphens from all existing document text or just from individual paragraphs.

Using Smart Dash, you can automatically convert double hyphens (--) to dashes (-) in your document.

You can also set the quote format (such as herringbone, brackets, or double quotes) and use smart quotes to automatically turn straight quotes into herringbone quotes.

Changing automatic hyphenation settings for a document

The hyphenation setting applies to the entire document, except for paragraphs where you specifically added or removed hyphens (see the next task). This setting only affects word hyphenation at the end of a line, but does not affect hyphens that you enter manually.

Add or remove hyphens in specific paragraphs

This setting only affects word hyphenation at the end of a line, but does not affect hyphens that you enter manually.

The hyphens in these paragraphs will not change if you subsequently change the hyphenation settings for the entire document (see the previous task).

Turn Smart Dash on or off

Turning smart dashes on or off does not affect existing hyphens and dashes in the document, only new text.

Select Pages >

Under Formatting, select or clear the Use smart quotes and smart dashes check box.

Convert existing double hyphens to dashes

If your document uses double hyphens instead of dashes, you can quickly replace them with dashes throughout the document or just in specific text.

Selecting a default quote style

You can set the quote style for single and double quotes that will be used in your document. This setting applies to all your Pages documents, but only to new text. Existing quotes are not changed.

Choose Pages > Preferences (the Pages menu is located at the top of the screen).

Click "Auto-Correct" at the top of the settings window.

Under Formatting, select the Use smart quotes and smart dashes checkbox.

Click the pop-up menus for double and single quotes and choose a style for each quote type.

Changing the style of existing quotes

You can quickly change the style of quotes throughout your entire document or just specific text.

Quotation marks are a symbol, a punctuation mark, which must have a pair. It highlights quotes from the general text, words taken from other texts, or segments of words. It is also used to highlight the irony or figurative meaning of a word, its unusualness, or a reference to something.

If the quotation uses another expression enclosed in these symbols, then the latter will be of a different type. For example: I received a telegram: “I’m arriving this evening. I’ll stay at the Troitsk Hotel.”

In punctuation there is several types similar punctuation marks:

“Christmas trees” or “French” are also typographic;
“Paws” or “German”;
“English double” and “single” (this punctuation mark is rarely used in Russian literature and writing).

“Herringbones” are used mainly for printing. “Paws” – in texts written by human hand. There are also “computer” or typewritten ones, in which the design of the opening and closing quotation marks is not at all different from each other. They are typed using the keyboard on a computer.

Microsoft Word uses French and English by default.

How to put Christmas trees, paws and other quotes from the keyboard

There are several ways to put quotation marks on the keyboard of a laptop or personal computer when typing in any version of Word (including 2010/2013/2016) or elsewhere.

"Christmas trees"

In this case, use the key combination “Shift” + “2”. This method will work if the keyboard layout is Russian, and also when you need “Christmas trees”:

There is another method for printing this sign. The method is not often practiced, but it is better to know it too. We change the layout to English and type two letters “ab”, then click on the buttons “ Alt» + « X" You will get the opening symbol, and the opposite one is done in the same way as the opening one, but we write “ bb».

“English”

If we are typing in English, then to highlight a word we should use “Shift” + “E”:

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To make single corner quotes, follow the instructions:

change the language to English;
press " Shift" and click on the letter " B"- you get an open corner;
in order to close it, press " Shift" and click on the button " YU»;
then we change the layout to Russian and enter the required word between them;
We continue typing.

Quotes "paws"

This type cannot be set from the keyboard, only using autocorrect or ASCII code. We'll talk about this further.

We use ASCII code

To set such characters, you can use a special table of symbols that are not on the keyboard. Below is a picture and an explanation for it.

To use it you should:

The necessary words are written inside quotation marks.

Symbols in Word

In a Word document, quotation marks can be set in another way. In the “Insert” tab there is an item “ Symbol».

It is located in the upper right corner immediately below the “Equation” item.

To use this method you must:

You can use the symbol table not only in Word; to do this you need to launch START and go to Programs - Accessories - Service. In Windows 10, just find the Standard section in START.

Further use is similar to working in Word.

Quotes in HTML

For html pages, separate mnemonics are used:

“
» - ";
&bdquo - „;
&ldquo - “;
&rdquo - ";
&lsquo - ';
&rsquo - '.

There is another tag in HTML. Thanks to it, all text that will be enclosed inside this tag is surrounded by quotation marks. The tag is a small letter of the Latin alphabet “q”.

And their appearance will be depend on attribute"lang" which will be entered at the root of the HTML component. When the “lang” attribute has the following form – “lang=”ru””, “Christmas trees” will be displayed on the screen in the final document.

Remember that all codes are installed in the hypertext markup location where they should appear in the browser. Many browsers don't support dependence of the output of certain characters on the attribute. It is recommended to use CSS layout.

Using autocorrect - how to change quotes in Word

For such punctuation marks, you can autocorrect so as not to be distracted by switching the keyboard while typing. Autocorrect helps increasing text printing speed. To do this, you need to use the instructions below:

open a Word page;
Click on the “File” tab and go to “ Options»;
In Options, click on “Spelling” and press the “ AutoCorrect options»;
In the “Auto format as you type” item, which you will see in the window that opens, put a checkmark above the line “Replace straight quotes with paired quotes as you type.”

Using Smart Dash, you can automatically convert double hyphens (--) to dashes (-) in your document.

You can also set the quote format (such as herringbone, brackets, or double quotes) and use smart quotes to automatically turn straight quotes into herringbone quotes.

Changing automatic hyphenation settings for a document

Add or remove hyphens in specific paragraphs

This setting only affects word hyphenation at the end of a line, but does not affect hyphens that you enter manually.

The hyphens in these paragraphs will not change if you subsequently change the hyphenation settings for the entire document (see the previous task).

Turn Smart Dash on or off

Turning smart dashes on or off does not affect existing hyphens and dashes in the document, only new text.

Select Pages >

Under Formatting, select or clear the Use smart quotes and smart dashes check box.

Convert existing double hyphens to dashes

If your document uses double hyphens instead of dashes, you can quickly replace them with dashes throughout the document or just in specific text.

Selecting a default quote style

You can set the quote style for single and double quotes that will be used in your document. This setting applies to all your Pages documents, but only to new text. Existing quotes are not changed.

Choose Pages > Preferences (the Pages menu is located at the top of the screen).

Click "Auto-Correct" at the top of the settings window.

Under Formatting, select the Use smart quotes and smart dashes checkbox.

Click the pop-up menus for double and single quotes and choose a style for each quote type.

Changing the style of existing quotes

You can quickly change the style of quotes throughout your entire document or just specific text.

Every Habr user who has at least once typed “space-hyphen-space” here can see how the hyphen is magically replaced by an em dash. It was autocorrect that worked, similar to that found in Word and other word processors.

What is an em dash

The dash, or simply dash, comes in three main varieties, if you don’t bother:

The hyphen, the shortest one, is entered from the keyboard.
An em dash or EM DASH is a dash the width of a Latin M. Like in this phrase.
The em dash or EN DASH is a dash the width of a Latin N. Like this: –

If you bother, there are quite a lot of these traits, with their own traditions, gurus and holy wars. Well, what would it be like without them?

Due to my line of work, I have to deal with typography, and in order to format the text correctly and immediately, without relying on the mercy of the iron brain, I need to be able to enter symbols from the keyboard that cannot be entered. In particular, the em dash, which is often used in direct speech.

But, as we know: if you can’t, but really want to, then you can. I used Windows for a long time and used the well-known combination to quickly enter characters missing on the keyboard: pressed + a series of presses on the small (numeric) keyboard. For example, an em dash was inserted using 0151 with the alt held down. (The method worked flawlessly on the popularly beloved Piggy, as it is now - I don’t know, tell me in the comments.)

Several years ago, when I made the final decision to move to Linux, the problem of quickly entering typographic characters arose in full force. These are not only dashes, these are various types of typographical quotation marks - “Christmas trees” and “paws”, but also degrees of vodka Celsius °, approximate equality ≈ and other necessary things.

As usual, I went to the Internet to look for a solution. As usual, it was found immediately.

Compose key

Search engines came up with this method in large numbers. What it is?

The Compose method allows you to press and release a specially assigned key, enter a code sequence of symbols and get a candy wrapper of the corresponding symbol on the screen.

For example, pressing 1 and then 2, we get ½. To get the recommended em dash, press the hyphen three times, and so on. Learn the code table, bro, it requires memorizing code combinations, sometimes intuitive, sometimes not so much.

You can assign, for example, the left Win, also known as Super, to the role of Compose. Or the right one, whichever suits you. However, after some time I felt: a certain discomfort of the method, felt at the beginning, did not want to dissipate over time. I remembered the rapid method of tapping numbers and felt slightly nostalgic.

Level 3

Let me remind you that this happened several years ago. In the stream of search results, there were several references to the mysterious third level, but I couldn’t immediately Google what it was.

And I remained a happy Compose presser until one day I got into the jungle of my Linux keyboard settings and stumbled over... the word “level 3”! Both on…

(Or has it already been translated into Russian?.. I don’t remember. It doesn’t matter. And - I won’t bore you with the lyrics, straight to the point.)

The keyboard has levels. The first level is when you just pressed a key. For example, pressing “A” will type “a”; By pressing “2” you will print “2”.

The second level is when you pressed a key while holding Shift. Then pressing "A" will type "A"; By pressing “2” you will type “@” (in the Latin layout) or “"” in Russian.

By using the third level, you will be able to type other characters, but you no longer need to hold down Shift, but a modifier key specially assigned by you. It’s convenient for me to switch to the third level with the right Alt. Easily and easily enter frequently used herringbone quotes and em dashes with one hand.

But that's not all! By holding down the Shift and Level3 keys at the same time, we get the fourth level and a few more symbols that do not fit into the logical, intuitively expected places of the third.

To take advantage of this feature, Linux users must remember to enable "additional typographic characters" in the "miscellaneous compatibility settings." Well, of course, select the key to select the third level (or third row, depending on the translation, level 3, in general). After which you can view and print a map of the symbols involved there in the settings.

But there is also a fifth level - but the inquisitive reader will figure it out on his own; the inquisitive person doesn’t need it at all, as IMHA whispers to me.

The feature is available in all major DEs (Gnome 3 users will have to install a tweaker). What about Windows? It turns out that there is such an opportunity there too. The search keyword is “Birman layout”.

For obvious reasons, I myself have not tested this software. I would be grateful for sensible comments from those in the know. I'll bring it in.

Total

Both Linux and Windows users can customize their Birman layout, or use the Compose method, or both, as Winnie the Pooh used to say.

Now we can easily enter the symbols “”-°≈½⅓¼←→, numbers squared², cubed³, and other chiaroscuro.

And we can even place accents on the right place!

Upd1:

Comrade suggests: the configuration of third-level symbols is in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/typo.

The Compose method for Windows users is recommended by comrade: the WinCompose project on GitHub.

Upd2:

For Android there are several keyboards that have something like a third level. A long tap will bring up a window in which you can select additional symbols. At first I used Hacker's Keyboard, then switched to its Full Keyboard mod by a Russian-speaking author.

Special symbols

Or the text may be written in a language that uses diacritics, such as German, French, Danish. To enter various punctuation marks (except for a few standard keys on the keyboard, such as a period or comma), special characters, and diacritics in Windows, use the Alt key in combination with a certain code. For example, an en dash is entered by pressing the Alt key and typing the code 0150 (Alt+0150) on the numeric keypad, and an em dash is entered by Alt+0151. Herringbone quotes: left - Alt+0171, and right - Alt+0187. In a similar way, you can enter special characters, for example, ©, ®, ° or currency signs: €, £, which are not clearly marked on the keyboard. The method is quite inconvenient, especially if you have to enter a lot of text - you need to have a lookup table at hand. You can use the Character Table program, which is simply not suitable for work when you need to enter a lot of letters with diacritics.

For those running Mac OS X, things are much simpler. Mac OS X uses modifier keys that temporarily change the keyboard layout when you hold them down. A kind of virtual keyboard helps you remember keyboard shortcuts for some punctuation marks and special characters. To open it, select Show Keyboard panel from the current layout icon menu. If this command is not in the specified menu, you should launch “System Preferences” and open the “Keyboard” panel. On the "Keyboard" tab, you should check the box next to the "Show Keyboard and Symbols panels in the menu bar" option. (On Mac OS 10.9.x Maverix. For other versions of the operating system, settings for displaying the Keyboard and Symbols panels are located in the Language & Text tab of System Preferences.) After this, the required command will appear in the keyboard layout icon menu.

To enter certain characters, press the Option key and the letter corresponding to this character. Moreover, this works in both Russian and English keyboard layouts, and for each language its own characters will be entered. For example, to enter © you need to press Option+G (Option+P), for £ - Option+3. To enter other characters, you may need to enable additional languages and fonts.

In almost all programs where there is text input, the en dash “–” is entered by pressing the Option +- keys, and the em dash by pressing the Shift+Option+- keys. This applies not only to test editors, but also to layout programs, Skype and browsers.

Or when working on Facebook, you type text in Russian and you need to insert a link to a specific person’s page. To do this, type the @ sign, followed by the person's name without spaces. There is no @ sign in the Russian layout. And for the sake of entering one character, you need to switch the layout? Not necessary. Press the “secret keys” Option+2 and the @ sign is immediately entered. Or you want to add hashtags to your post. To enter the # sign without switching the layout, press Option+3 and enter tags in Russian. It is clear that if you write in Latin, these keyboard shortcuts are not necessary. If you are typing in Hebrew, then to enter these and some others

characters, you must press the Shift key, not the Option key.

Signs on the Russian keyboard while holding down the Option key

Signs on the Russian keyboard while holding down the Shift and Option keys

There are two ways to enter accents and special characters in versions of Mac OS X starting with 10.7 Lion.

In the first, when typing text, just press and hold one letter, for example “a” - a small window will appear with the corresponding diacritics. To select a symbol, press the number written below it.

This technique works in TextEdit, but in text editors NeoOffice or Word it is very inconvenient, since when a window with diacritics appears, the letter continues to be typed many times. For this method to work at least somehow, you need to reduce auto-repeat to a minimum in System Settings (Keyboard → Keyboard tab). This technique doesn't work at all in Photoshop or InDesign. The described technique can be turned on and off using a special command in the Terminal program. Those who are not comfortable with the command line can use the TinkerTool program. Using this program, you can configure some settings in the Mac OS 10 operating system that are not in the standard system settings.

Fortunately, the old method of entering diacritics has been preserved. If you press the Option key while the Keyboard panel is open, five keys will be highlighted in orange (for English). Basic diacritics are written on these virtual keys. When you turn on some languages, such as Azerbaijani or Finnish, the number of keys for entering special characters increases. If you press Option in combination with a specific letter, the sign will appear against the background of a gray or colored rectangle (the color of the highlight depends on the program). Then you need to press the key with the letter, and it will appear with a diacritic on top, and the selection will disappear. For example, to type the letter ú on an English keyboard, you would press Option+E and then u, the letter you want to add a diacritic over.

Characters on the English keyboard while holding down the Option key

Signs on the English keyboard while holding down the Shift and Option keys

Quotes

In some programs, for example in NeoOffice or InDesign, when the language input is correctly configured using the program, opening and closing quotes are entered when you press the icon ", which is located on the key with the number 2. However, in TextEdit or Skype, despite the correct installation of quote replacement in the System Preferences on the Languages and Text panel in the Text tab, quotes are displayed not with “herringbones” or “paws”, but with a symbol not accepted in Russian typography - “like this”. In fact, these are not quotes, but an inch icon, or seconds, for example a 30" monitor, 45° angle 10" 33". Sometimes such a symbol is called a wildcard, which is incorrect. It’s interesting that even with the correct settings in InDesign, in some Russian fonts, Christmas tree quotes are typed with an inch icon. This is where modifier keys help us. For example, with the Russian layout, to enter the “ icon, press the Shift+Option += keys, and with the English keyboard, press the Option +\ keys.

To enter many special characters: mathematical, musical, punctuation, pictograms, currency symbols, and others, use the Symbols panel. The command to display this panel on the screen is located in the menu of the current layout icon. If it is not there, you should check the item Show the “Keyboard” and “Symbols” panels in the menu bar in the Keyboard panel in the system settings. This panel brings together all the characters that are contained in installed fonts. The symbols are divided into categories; if these categories seem small, the list can be easily expanded. To do this, click on the gear in the upper left corner of the window and select Configure list. In the window that appears, select the required items. When a character is selected, the right side of the window displays the font options in which this character appears and its encoding. In Mac OS X Lion, even emoticons - emoji - appeared in the character table. When using the latter, for example, when sending mail to non-Apple devices, emoticons may not display correctly. It's worth noting that different fonts contain different characters. For example, the ⌘ sign is present in the Lucida Grande or Apple Symbols fonts, but it is not in the Baltica font. Therefore, to print some characters you will need to install additional fonts.