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Originally Posted by Rand Brittain
Basically, I replace left-single-quote and left-double-quote with two glyphs I'm not using, then swap them back. Then I turn right-double-quote into a glyph and turn every right-single-quote that's followed by a space, a </p>, emdash, colon, comma or period into a right-double-quote. Then I change that last glyph into a right-single-quote.
This gets most of the basic stuff done, but I still have to manually find all the unusual uses of the apostrophe and correct for them, like if someone were to use a bit o’ Cockney accent, or uses a possessive like "the Jones'." It's more a matter of find/replace and persistence than regexes. I'd just like to automate the find/replace instead of having to repeat the steps for every book.
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OK, thanks for that. I was hoping you may have found a 'magic formula' that didn't require manual intervention
I expect you also have to be a bit careful not to wreck the straight double quotes inside the html tags.