[webgodjj]

Hi,

I constantly am cutting and pasting MS Word documents into bbedit to hand code the text into html. The major bummer, and what I often miss, is the funky characters that MS uses. I would like to create a script to fix these issues, however, don't know where to start, or if someone already has done this...

I need to fix quotes (both double and single) and mdashes. The quotes would turn the smart quotes into regular ones and the mdash would turn into —

[suthercd]

BBedit has find and replace. Select the a character in the pasted text, Find from BBEdit's menu or command-f and then in the window that opens enter your replacement characters and the click the Replace button. You may want to choose the Start at top option before replacing.

Simple.

C-

[johnt519]

To fix the quotes and emdashes in BBEdit, just choose Convert to ASCII in the Text menu.

From the Users Manual:

Converted characters include umlauted and accented vowels, ligatures, typographer's quotes, and various specialized punctuation forms.