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

Latest Version

Version
6.0.0
Update
September 12, 2022
Size
17.6KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.28571 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions

Storage
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Instant Smart Quotes Extension

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”. ✍️
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Source Manifest.json

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