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pierret18811376
Inspiring
March 1, 2026
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quotation marks

Hello,

I would like to set the default quotation marks in FM to this type of quotation mark. 

How to set it in preferences ? or set it in a specific FM document ?

 

    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Dave Creamer of IDEASCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 1, 2026

    If you don’t want typographic quotes, but the straight ones, turn off the Smart Quotes option under Format>Document>Text Options menu.

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 2, 2026

    Keep workflow in mind when doing this.

    Straight quotes (Unicode/ASCII U+0022) are used extensively in HTML and XML, so if those are intended output formats, the quotes will need to be ‘escaped’  in some manner, and I’m not sure what FM does for that.

    It might be to ＆quot;, ＆#34; or ＆#x22;, and if the output itself gets further processed by downstream agents, those escapes could get dereferenced and interpreted. Heck I had to use U+FF06 ＆ instead of the normal U+0026 ampersand to keep this forum engine from interpreting that.

    “” and «» are in general much safer.

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    pierret18811376Author
    Inspiring
    March 2, 2026

    Hi Bob,

    In my case, what do you advise me to do ?

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Community Expert
    Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 1, 2026

    If you don’t want typographic quotes, but the straight ones, turn off the Smart Quotes option under Format>Document>Text Options menu.

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    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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