I am now using Brad Choate’s amazing MT-Regex plugin to automatically turn my straight apostrophes curly. To do it, first install the plugin, then create a new template module called curlyquotes that contains this code:
<MTAddRegex name="apos1">s/'([dmst])([ .,?!\)\/<])/’$1$2/gi</MTAddRegex>
<MTAddRegex name=”apos2″>s/’([lrv])([el])([ .,?!\)\/<])/’$1$2$3/gi</MTAddRegex>
Then, in each of your templates, add this at the top:
<$MTInclude module="curlyquotes"$>
And anywhere you have this:
<$MTEntryBody$>
Change it to this:
<$MTEntryBody regex="1"$>
Apostrophes can be typed straight, and will show up straight when editing, but they will be published as curly.
