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Originally Posted by HarryT
When you have single quotes nested inside double quotes (or vice versa), though, it is conventional to separate them with a space.
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I've looked at some of my paper books. For example in Harry Potter 5 there is no space whatsoever, it looks like this:
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'I got a "P",' said Ron
'"Troll",' said George promptly
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The only reason there is a space between " and ' is due to the comma that's pulled inside the quote. Otherwise there is no space whatsoever so the opening really looks like '''.
In Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods it looks like this:
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"'Turn and turn and turn again,'" she said.
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Now in that book there is a slight space between " and ', ' and ". But it's only hinted at, a regular space (between two words) is about three times as wide. So I believe this mini space to be courtesy of the font used by that book. Either that or there is a typographic extra slim space character.
I haven't found a book where it's actually a space. If it's actually necessary, a nonbreakable space should be used instead, as it otherwise can turn out ugly depending on screen / font size.