#4.21 / 28 rate

Instant Smart Quotes

1,000 users

2020-03-27

Florian Zemke

[email protected]

This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type.

Instant Smart Quotes is the last extension you will need to write beautiful typographically correct texts.

- Support for over 50 languages
- Quickly enable and disable the instant replacements from the toolbar
- Quickly change the language from the toolbar
- All settings are saved per page and synched across all of your devices
- Text in `backticks` will be ignored in favor of Markdown

Depending on which language you have set, the following chars will be replaced for language-specific replacements (comma-separated):
', ", >>, <<

Chars that will be replaced for no matter which language are the following (comma-separated):
', --, ---, ...

This website is a nice manual for English punctuation guidelines:
http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/

Sources of which quotes to be used for which language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
http://www.witch.westfalen.de/csstest/quotes/quotes.html

`"Don't be dumb"`, “you’re using Instant Smart Quotes”. ✍️

Reviews

Mehmet

Mikhail

Unfortunately, the extension doesn't work properly with Belarusian and Ukrainian. I can't put correct quotation sings «» when pressing the standard SHIFT+2 key combination. Any other key combinations don't produce correct quotation signs either. In English, everything works fine.

Cassidy Percoco

This is a great extension, but doesn't quite work correctly on ellipsus.com, which is unfortunately where I mainly want to use it. Every time I start a new paragraph, the cursor jumps behind the first character I type for some reason. Fortunately not too hard to deal with, but still annoying.