Re: st: Seeing Double - issues with quotation marks

[sjsamuels@gmail.com]

On the Mac an easy fix for such problems is to copy from the Do-File
Editor directly into your favorite text editor (I use BBEdit) and do
the fixes there.  Easiest of all: use QuickCursor by Jesse Grosjean
(http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/ or any download
site) to open in and save from the text editor  while working in the
Do-File Editor.

-Steve


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Craig, Benjamin M.
<Benjamin.Craig@moffitt.org> wrote:
> Thank you for the MS Word fix. I was hoping to find a way to fix it in
> Stata.
>
> Based on your explanation, it seems that Word can infects Stata's text
> editor. Too bad that there is no vaccine. I restarted Stata, so I am
> good for now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Miller
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:14 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Seeing Double - issues with quotation marks
>
> 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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