People often make the mistake of putting " in place of `` in LaTeX documents. To repair this, the only easy solution is something like: s/\(\s\)"/\1``/g in VIM or sed. I've seen alternate solutions posted but they're all too complicated. One recommendation was to switch to XeTeX, which sounds like overkill, and others all stated that a complicated perl script is required. The latter is technically true, but why isn't such a thing readily available? Any other ideas?