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HarryT · 03-12-2012, 01:17 PM

If you have a series of paragraphs in a book which are a continuing quote (ie paragraphs which don't have a close quote), and then within this, have quoted speech, the "internal" quotes always end up wrong if you use Calibre's "smarten punctuation" option.

Eg:

John said, "The man said 'aaaaa'
" 'bbbb'
" 'cccc'
" 'dddd'
" and then ended the story."

In the second and subsequent paragraphs, the "internal" quotes end up the wrong way around. Eg, 'bbbb' ends up starting with a close quote, and ending with an opening quote.

Unfortunately this is a quote style that's used extensively in the "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus" that I maintain here on MR.

Is it worth reporting this as a bug? I believe it's not actually Calibre code that does this, but an external library, right?

03-12-2012, 01:17 PM	#1
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,556 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	A situation that breaks "smarten punctuation" If you have a series of paragraphs in a book which are a continuing quote (ie paragraphs which don't have a close quote), and then within this, have quoted speech, the "internal" quotes always end up wrong if you use Calibre's "smarten punctuation" option. Eg: John said, "The man said 'aaaaa' " 'bbbb' " 'cccc' " 'dddd' " and then ended the story." In the second and subsequent paragraphs, the "internal" quotes end up the wrong way around. Eg, 'bbbb' ends up starting with a close quote, and ending with an opening quote. Unfortunately this is a quote style that's used extensively in the "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus" that I maintain here on MR. Is it worth reporting this as a bug? I believe it's not actually Calibre code that does this, but an external library, right?