How can I avoid curly quotation marks and quotation marks adapted to a certain language?

[ecbritz]

Please look at the position and appearance of the quotation marks in the attachment. I would like to avoid such curly quotation marks and quotation marks positioned according to the writing customs of the language used for spell-checking. (In the first example, the old Dutch custom of starting a quotation at the bottom of a line of text is shown.) I prefer quotation marks to be unformatted, plain and simple, by default, i.e. look like this: ' and " . How do I avoid the automatic formatting of quotation marks ?

[Robin Holt]

Have you turned off "Smart Quotes"? On the Edit Tab under Options, try selecting "None" in the drop down list for Smart Quotes.

[ecbritz]

Thanks very much! Switching smart quotes to "None" under Options was the solution. It seems you can apply smart quotes to an individual document by going to the Options > Edit > Smart Quotes dialog. This setting may remain active when subsequent documents are created. So before exiting (or on restarting) Textmaker, you should switch smart quotes off again.