Beginquote without endquote and vice versa

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HHJT
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Beginquote without endquote and vice versa

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Hello,

How do I find quotes that have a beginquote but do not have an endquote, or vice versa?

For beginquote-missing paragraphs I use ^([^‘]+)[.,?!]$ which works fine.
But for endquote-missing paragraphs I use ‘([^’]+)$ and which works sort of; now it also omits paragraphs containing ‘I’d… and ‘he’s….

How do I include punctuation marks in my selection so it only finds paragraphs having a beginquote but not having an endquote preceded by an punctuation mark?
OpenOffice 4.1.2 with MacOS 10.13
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Re: Beginquote without endquote and vice versa

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Language Tool extension is fairly good on finding unmatched quotes.
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HHJT
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Re: Beginquote without endquote and vice versa

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Thanx for replying.

Are talking about a language pack? I have it installed (Dutch). How do I customize it to find missing quotes?
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I'm talking about an extension called Language Tool, from http://www.languagetool.org
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