Hey fedizens  

Anybody know a trusted script¹ or extention² to automatically replace "smart" (aka "curly") quotation marks and apostrophes with straight ones?

• Double quotation marks -- replacing “ and ” with ".
• Single quotation marks -- replacing ‘ and ’ with '.
• Apostrophe - replacing ’ with '.

Genuinely asking, but no reply guys please 🫶

Thanks 🩷

#AskFedi #punctuation #PunctuationMarks #QuotationMarks #apostrophe #GenuinelyAsking #NoReplyGuys

Edit: Apologies for any confusion caused. We're looking only for something basic and trusted that can replace certain characters or text strings with another. So long as we can easily configure it to replace the above, it doesn't matter if it's a more-general script or extension for replacing text.

Edit 2: We found an extention that could automagically do it for us. It's called FoxReplace. Took us a few moments to work out how it worked, but we ended up creating a rule for text only (ignoring URLs) to apply the desired substitutions automatically to the text output on any rendered web page on a page load/reload.

¹ Compatible with violentmonkey.
² Compatible with Firefox or Firefox-based browsers.

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Acabo de descubrir el "modo Hemingway", en las preferencias de Apostrophe (un editor de markdown, dentro de las aplicaciones de gnome).
Me ha parecido muy curioso.
Voy a probarlo en alguna sesión de escritura para ver qué tal. Este modo te inhabilita el borrado o volver atrás en el texto, emulando lo que sería un proceso de escritura en máquina de escribir.
El diseño y funcionalidad de este editor es una delicia.

https://apps.gnome.org/es/Apostrophe/

#Apostrophe #Gnome

I understand the motivation for this apostrophe, but I do not share it.

(from "A Crack in Everything" by Marcus Chown, a fine new book about black holes)

#punctuation #writing #grammar #EnglishUsage #apostrophe

#help #KDE #Debian #keyboard

Bonjour tout le monde.

En gros, sur mon #clavier #bépo, j'aimerais intervertir le simple quote droit ' avec l'apostrophe courbe qui sert vraiment les #apostrophe ’.

Sous Xorg, j'avais un script qui se lançait au démarrage, mais sous #Wayland (+ adapté à ma config), ça ne marche plus.

Der #Markdown-Editor #Apostrophe verwendet seit Version 3.3 (10.09.25, gerade heute kam Version 3.4 raus) #Typst als Renderengine:

• Use Typst as the default render engine. LaTeX is no longer needed for exporting PDFs