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Originally Posted by vanpelten
As a grateful lurker here, I just had to comment on this relatively new problem. Like you, I do not know if the backward quote phenomena are a Calibre issue or problems with the books under examination. I'm very glad the Mapp and Lucia books have been 99% corrected by another user, though he had to do it the very hard way. I also downloaded The Chronicles of Barsetshire and had the same experience described regarding the quotation marks at the beginning of sentences. There appear to be an even number of quotes on the 10 pages of html I looked at, though there's no guarantee that some are misplaced and some are just left out.
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Quotes do not, of course, have to be balanced. Eg, this style of quoting is very commonly encountered in novels:
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John said, "This is the first paragraph...
"And this the second...
"And this the third...
"And this the end of what John said."
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ie, the close quotes are only present in the final paragraph of the quoted speech; the earlier paragraphs have only an open quote. Any "smart quote" software which can't handle this is doomed to failure.