Thread: How to handle 'Tis and 'Twas
View Single Post
Old 08-03-2011, 04:38 AM   #1
AlexBell
Wizard
AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AlexBell ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
AlexBell's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,413
Karma: 13369310
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Launceston, Tasmania
Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet
How to handle 'Tis and 'Twas
I accept that this may be thought to be a trivial question, but I'm just a trifle obsessional.

The background is that I'm converting 'The Wild Geese' by Stanley J. Weyman from Gutenberg HTML to ePub. The book was published in 1908 and is set in Ireland at the time of George 1, and the Gutenberg HTML has straight quotes which I'm converting to curly quotes by hand.

The text is replete with 'Tis and 'Twas and some other words with an initial apostrophe. Should the apostrophe lean to the left or to the right? I've been making then lean to the left so far, and think that looks better.
AlexBell is offline   Reply With Quote