Autoquote2
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I have changed the logic of the original, Autoquote.py, so that it is much simpler, and therefore probably easier to tweak to your needs. Here is the basic process for each kind of typographic quotation:
- I have created a couple of flags, doublequote_flag and singlequote_flag, which merely denote whether you are outside or inside a set of quotation marks.
- If you are outside, the next quote is a leading quote, if inside, the next is a following quote. Since the single and double flags are separate, nested quotes are possible, but only one layer. In other words, for example, you will not get a good result if you put double quotes inside single quotes inside double quotes. I think this is an unlikely occurrence, and suggests you're overusing quotes.
- There is also the addition of an apostrophe, for contractions like don't or d'etat. The apostrophe is a single follow quote – there is an alternative built in by commenting out one line and uncommenting the next to stay with a typewriter single quote. The test is whether the previous and next character are both alphanumeric.
Something not handled is a contraction like 'twas or 'tween. Also not handled at this time is the single guillemet, if this is used in nested quotes, the script can be modified. It's not clear to me how useful single guillemets are in French on a practical level, so the script uses English-style single quotes for now. There is a complexity with French that might require 'fr1' and fr2' choices, but one option seems to be double guillemets inside double guillemets, which would require a different approach.
Also note that in French, a non-breaking space is added after the leading double guillemets and before following double guillemets. Adding these spaces causes a counting problem in the number of characters in the frame, and may lead to a failure to get to the last character, in case that is a quotation mark. The work-around, if you see this is to run the script again on the same frame, and set the flag to inside as shown below – you should have gotten a message that the script ended with the flag inside for one kind of quote.
Linked Frames
| If you are running this in one of a series of linked frames, the script will only process one frame at a time, so it would need to be run on each frame in the series. This may end up with open quotes at the end of the frame. Thus there is a message box at the end giving you this information. The other work around could be to alter the script so it could run on a text file outside of Scribus.
If either of these says inside when the script ends, then either there is a mistake in the text, you have the case of French where the non-breaking spaces have been added, or you have a linked frame and are truly in the middle of a quote. When you run the script for the next frame in the series enter this for the state of the double or single quote flag. If you make a mistake and misspell outside or inside, the script chooses the default outside. |
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These dialogs actually come earlier in the script, but in almost all situations the first time you run it, just click Ok for each. This is where you might use the information you get from the last time you ran it. |
The Script
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# File: Autoquote2.py - changes typewriter quotes to typographic quotes
# © 2010.12.25 Gregory Pittman
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
"""
USAGE
You must have a document open, and a text frame selected.
There will be a valueDialog asking for your language for the quotes,
the default is 'en', but change the default to suit your needs.
Detected errors shut down the script with an appropriate message.
"""
import scribus
if scribus.haveDoc():
c = 0
lang = scribus.valueDialog("Choose by language or country", 'Language: af, be, ch, de, en, es, et, fi, fr,\n hu, is, lt, mk, nl, pl, ru, se, sk, sl, sq and uk\n are current choices','en')
if (lang == 'en'):
lead_double = u"\u201c"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u2018"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif (lang == 'de'):
lead_double = u"\u201e"
follow_double = u"\u201c"
lead_single = u"\u2019"
follow_single = u"\u201a"
elif (lang == 'fr'):
lead_double = u"\u00ab" + u"\u00a0" # Unicode 00a0 is a non-breaking space
follow_double = u"\u00a0" + u"\u00bb"
lead_single = u"\u2018"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif (lang == 'pl'):
lead_double = u"\u201e"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u201a"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif ((lang == 'se') or (lang == 'fi')):
lead_double = u"\u201d"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u2019"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif (lang == 'af'):
lead_double = u"\u201c"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u2018"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif (lang == 'sq'):
lead_double = u"\u201e"
follow_double = u"\u201c"
lead_single = u"\u2018"
follow_single = u"\u2019"
elif ((lang == 'be') or (lang == 'ch') or (lang == 'uk') or (lang == 'ru')):
lead_double = u"\u00ab"
follow_double = u"\u00bb"
lead_single = u"\u2039"
follow_single = u"\u203a"
elif (lang == 'uk'):
lead_double = u"\u00ab"
follow_double = u"\u00bb"
lead_single = u"\u2039"
follow_single = u"\u203a"
elif (lang == 'es'):
lead_double = u"\u00ab"
follow_double = u"\u00bb"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u2018"
elif ((lang == 'lt') or (lang == 'mk') or (lang == 'is') or (lang == 'sk') or (lang == 'sl') or (lang == 'et')):
lead_double = u"\u201e"
follow_double = u"\u201c"
lead_single = u"\u2019"
follow_single = u"\u201a"
elif ((lang == 'hu') or (lang == 'nl')):
lead_double = u"\u201e"
follow_double = u"\u201d"
lead_single = u"\u00bb"
follow_single = u"\u00ab"
else:
scribus.messageBox('Language Error', 'You need to choose an available language', icon=0, button1=1)
sys.exit(2)
else:
scribus.messageBox('Usage Error', 'You need a Document open', icon=0, button1=1)
sys.exit(2)
if scribus.selectionCount() == 0:
scribus.messageBox('Scribus - Usage Error',
"There is no object selected.\nPlease select a text frame and try again.",
scribus.ICON_WARNING, scribus.BUTTON_OK)
sys.exit(2)
if scribus.selectionCount() > 1:
scribus.messageBox('Scribus - Usage Error',
"You have more than one object selected.\nPlease select one text frame and try again.", scribus.ICON_WARNING, scribus.BUTTON_OK)
sys.exit(2)
textbox = scribus.getSelectedObject()
pageitems = scribus.getPageItems()
boxcount = 1
for item in pageitems:
if (item[0] == textbox):
if (item[1] != 4):
scribus.messageBox('Scribus - Usage Error', "This is not a textframe. Try again.", scribus.ICON_WARNING, scribus.BUTTON_OK)
sys.exit(2)
contents = scribus.getTextLength(textbox)
doublequote_flag = scribus.valueDialog("Beginning Double Quotation State", "'outside' is normal. If you are running on a linked frame,\n enter 'inside' if this was indicated at last script end",'outside')
singlequote_flag = scribus.valueDialog("Beginning Single Quotation State", "'outside' is normal. If you are running on a linked frame,\n enter 'inside' if this was indicated at last script end",'outside')
if ((doublequote_flag != 'outside') and (doublequote_flag != 'inside')): doublequote_flag = 'outside'
if ((singlequote_flag != 'outside') and (singlequote_flag != 'inside')): singlequote_flag = 'outside'
apostrophe = u"\u2019" # we are using a follow single quote for apostrophe
while 1:
if (c == contents): break
if ((c + 1) > contents - 1):
nextchar = ' '
else:
scribus.selectText(c+1, 1, textbox)
nextchar = scribus.getText(textbox)
scribus.selectText(c, 1, textbox)
char = scribus.getText(textbox)
if (len(char) != 1):
c += 1
continue
if ((ord(char) == 34) and (doublequote_flag == 'outside')):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(lead_double, c, textbox)
doublequote_flag = 'inside'
elif ((ord(char) == 34) and (doublequote_flag == 'inside')):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(follow_double, c, textbox)
doublequote_flag = 'outside'
if ((ord(char) == 39) and (c == 0)):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(lead_single, c, textbox)
singlequote_flag = 'inside'
elif (ord(char) == 39):
if ((prevchar.isalnum()) and (nextchar.isalnum())):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(apostrophe, c, textbox)
elif (singlequote_flag == 'inside'):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(follow_single, c, textbox)
singlequote_flag = 'outside'
elif (singlequote_flag == 'outside'):
scribus.deleteText(textbox)
scribus.insertText(lead_single, c, textbox)
singlequote_flag = 'inside'
c += 1
prevchar = char
contents = scribus.getTextLength(textbox)
scribus.setRedraw(1)
scribus.docChanged(1)
endmessage = 'Successfully ran script\nThe final state of Double Quotes: '+doublequote_flag+ '\nThe final state of Single Quotes: '+singlequote_flag # Change this message to your liking
scribus.messageBox("Finished", endmessage,icon=0,button1=1)