Testing version: 2.0
What were you doing: Putting in text to a quote field.
What feature did you use: The > key for a quote
What happened: If you use a " as the first character, it is backwards. Compared to if you use it later.
What did you expect to happen: The quote to be the right direction.
Example (see correct direction on the right side before I):
I second this. Was going to post but saw you’ve already got it. Thanks.
I suspect this has something todo with smart quote substitutions more than >. If you disable the smart quotes in Edit > Substitutions you get the same problem?
@trix180 In short yes. If I turn off Smart Quotes, it goes back to straight, vertical quotes instead of the hooked ones. However, if I go into textedit, here’s what I find:
So I’m guessing in Bear, with the new changes to hide the markdown modifiers, it’s butting up against a > character. If I add a space in bear between the quote bar and the quote, it doesn’t flip.
However, if I type the text with the quote first, THEN convert it to a quote by going back to the beginning of the line, it renders correctly:
Let me know if you need anything else but I hope this is enough to explain it.
For what it’s worth, I was just about to report this for bullets too. If I create a bullet and then add a smart quote, you get a reversed quote than what I’d expect.
Just noticed this in the note title.
Back more than a year later to say the issue persists with curly quotes after bullet points. If you have a bullet point, enter a quote mark, and wait more than the tiniest fraction of a second to type the next character, the quote mark substitution points it in the wrong direction. Maybe, in the absence of further text, the substitution code looks for the nearest character, sees the - two spaces earlier, and orients the curl toward that?
It’s a small thing, but I type out notes from books in bulleted lists, and my pinky is going to fall off if I have to keep typing opt-[ for every new line …
Thanks,
Brian
