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Old 02-20-2011, 11:51 AM   #1
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Question Quote tag handling

I have been trying to figure out how to port HTML quotes to a format that calibre will display properly.

I've been using <q> tags to handle correctly formatting smart quotes. The CSS that I am using is:

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q:before { content: '\201C' }
q:after { content: '\201D' }
q.continued:after { content: '' }
q.single:before, q q:before { content: '\2018' }
q.single:after, q q:after { content: '\2019' }
In browsers this handles nested quotes (“I said, ‘go!’”) and removing the trailing quote on multi-paragraph quotes.

As best I can tell, Calibre doesn't process the :before and :after pseudo-elements. Is there a workaround possible?
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Old 02-20-2011, 12:05 PM   #2
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calibre supports neither before, after nor content. So you can't use CSS to do this and IIRC the q tag is deprecated
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Old 02-20-2011, 12:33 PM   #3
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@wholcomb,

Can't you just check the Smarten Punctuation feature in Convert - Look&Feel to make sure you get curly quotes?
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