# Smart Quote Wrapper

Wrap whole text, lines, or sentences with typographic quotes, nested quote pairs, and language-aware punctuation.

> Canonical page: https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/quote-wrapper

- **Category:** Text Processing

- **Keywords:** text, quotes, smart quotes, typography, guillemets, punctuation

## Overview

Smart Quote Wrapper adds typographic quotation marks to complete text, individual lines, or sentences. Choose English curly quotes, single quotes, French guillemets, German low-high quotes, Chinese corner brackets, or straight quotes, with options for nested and existing quotations.

## Inputs

- **Text Input** (textarea): Paste text to quote...
- **Quote Style** (select)
- **Scope** (select)
- **Nested quotes** (checkbox)
- **Existing quotes** (select)
- **Typography** (select)

## When to use

- Format copied text with consistent typographic quotation marks.
- Wrap every line or sentence separately for scripts, dialogue, or quoted notes.
- Convert existing straight quotes while preserving nested quotation structure.

## How it works

- Paste the text into the Text Input field.
- Select a Quote Style and choose whether to wrap the whole text, each line, or each sentence.
- Enable Nested quotes when the text contains quotations inside quotations.
- Choose how to handle existing quotes and set Typography to Automatic or a specific language.

## Use cases

- Editors can standardize quotation marks across articles, manuscripts, and other text.
- Writers can format dialogue or quoted passages sentence by sentence.
- Multilingual teams can apply language-aware punctuation for English, French, German, or Chinese text.

## Frequently asked questions

### What input does Smart Quote Wrapper accept?

It accepts pasted text in the Text Input field.

### Can I quote each sentence separately?

Yes. Set Scope to Each sentence.

### Which quote styles are available?

English curly double, curly single, French guillemets, German low-high, Chinese corner brackets, and straight quotes.

### What happens to existing quotation marks?

You can convert them to the selected style or preserve them.

### Does the tool support nested quotations?

Yes. Enable Nested quotes to apply nested quote pairs.

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