Enabling/Disabling smart quotes in lyrics - Dorico Elements - 6.1

Dorico Elements Help

Product
Dorico Elements
Version
6.1
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en-US
Document type
Webhelp
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fluidtopics

You can show either straight or curved apostrophes and quotation marks in individual lyrics.

Prerequisite
  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure
  1. Select the lyrics for which you want to enable/disable smart quotes. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Smarten quotes in the Lyrics group.
  3. Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.
Result

The selected lyrics use smart quotes when the checkbox is activated, and straight quotes when the checkbox is deactivated.

Example
Smart quotes around a lyric
Straight quotes around a lyric