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Originally Posted by cybmole
whereas a printed book will use single or double curly quotes for speech , many e-books have this style:
`Next week?'
i.e. an opening quote mark slants at 45 degrees, the matching, closing quote is vertical.
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Interesting. I've never seen this. I consider it to be an error.
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( but when I paste it from e-book to here it becomes slanted like this
`Next week?’ )
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That's because it's fixing the error.
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My keyboard also has a double quote key ", but does not have curly quote pairs ?
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There are a limited number of keys, but many programs will autoconvert, or you can type it in from the keyboard using a code to get the characters you want.
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the smarten punctuation feature in calibre does not seem to change from `' to "" ""
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It probably sees the error and ignores it. It wouldn't change to double quotes anyway, just form single quotes to smart single quotes.
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so : couple of questions - what format(s) for speech marks are considered to be correct, in the world of publishing, and what is the easiest route from what I now have in many e-books i,e, from `speech' to "speech" or to speech in curly quotes ?
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I'd search and replace the vertical quote to closing smart vertical quote.