Toggle for smart quotes

Hello.

Menu items are context-sensitive – they are only available when a relevant object has focus. Greyed-out text usually means that the cursor is in a place where the greyed-out feature can’t be used. For example, if the file explorer has focus, some or all substitutions won’t be available. If the cursor is moved into the body of a file, the substitutions should then be available, and the menu items should not be greyed out. This should be true system-wide on a Mac … it is not a specific quirk of Obsidian.

I found what was causing it. Smart quotes requires you to use spellcheck on. I think this applies to every program, not just Obsidian.

If spellcheck is on, you can use Edit–>Substitutions to

  1. disable (or enable) smart quotes
  2. customize smart quotes format so that you can override the system setting for smart quotes

I made a plugin that converts some characters on rendering:
Smart Punctuation on Rendering plugin - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum