Coding short quotations inside utterances

['Cathy Lonngren' via chibolts]

Many thanks, Brian, for such a simple solution - I clearly need to 
investigate






Many thanks Brian. Such a simple solution! Ashamed to say that I wasn't 
aware of that drop-down menu - thanks for pointing it out to me.
Cathy


On Monday, 13 August 2018 21:47:40 UTC+1, macw wrote:
>
> Dear Cathy,
>     Assuming you are using English and an English-language keyboard, this 
> should work.  But there can always be further complications with things 
> like this. Sometimes this is caused by the ways in which some other 
> application has redefined some keys.
>
> To get around the problem, you should be able to go the the Window menu 
> item in the top-level options for CLAN and then pull down to "Special 
> Characters".  There you will see options for open quote and close quote in 
> the last four lines of the list.  If you double click on the line for close 
> quote, it will insert that character into your text.  From that point, you 
> could use cut-and-paste to insert it as needed.
>
> Best,
>
> -- Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Aug 13, 2018, at 2:46 PM, 'Cathy Lonngren' via chibolts <
> chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> I am currently updating my CHAT transcripts (so they pass through CHECK). 
> One of the changes involves the coding of short quotations (single words or 
> a few words) within utterances. On p.67 of the manual it tells me to use F2 
> + ' to open a quote and then F2 + " to close a quote. Although the opening 
> quote marks appear without a problem, the closing quote marks do not - 
> instead the result is what looks like a comma. CHECK then identifies this 
> as an error. I have tried several things on the keyboard but no success so 
> far. I know the Unicode characters are U201C and U201D but using the ALT 
> button doesn't appear to work either. The device I am on at the moment is a 
> Windows 10 tablet with detachable keyboard (I am away travelling) so I 
> don't know whether that is the problem.
> Any help would be much appreciated. 
> Cathy
>
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