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Originally Posted by Rajmahid
I just encountered, for the first time, an issue with quotation marks appearing inverted -- that is close quotes -- at the BEGINNING of a number of sentences in an ePub when I ran it through Calibre's "smarten punctuation" option. ...
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I examined the ePub using Sigl's code view, but saw nothing obviously wrong. Any help with this perplexing issue would be greatly appreciated. |
I've looked at the second book mentioned in this thread (
The Chronicles of Barsetshire) that has the same problem with Calibres smarten punctuation. The double and single quotes are set absolute correctly, every opening mark has an end mark. Additionally there are a lot of abbreviations like 'Tis or 'Twas or 'oo or 'em or 'cause or 'ere ... that surely cause these kind of problem.
But even after disguising these abbreviations Calibre won't convert the book properly - some sentences have the right quotations, others not, and I must admit there is only little logic to recognise which quotes Calibre converts correctly and which not. At the beginning of a paragraph there are mostly backward marks, inside a paragraph a dialogue sometimes starts with the right opening mark and sometimes not. All pairs of single quotes are converted correctly.
I'm not sure if this is really a problem with the file or with Calibre.