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camdenmaine · 03-03-2013, 03:40 PM

I carefully replaced all opening quotes with “ and closing quotes with ” and similar changes for single quotes and dashes etc. Everything looks fine in book view. But when I look at the files in code view, I see that Sigil has replaced some of the &XXquo; characters with their typographic equivalents, “, ‘, ’, and ”. I'm not sure this is wrong, but it's a surprise. I'm also surprised that Sigil seems to have done this only in some files.

I guess I don't really understand the difference between keying in a typographic quote directly, say <Option><Left Bracket> for “ or entering “.

So . . . two questions: is my epub okay with some glyphs in one form and some in the other? and Is Sigil replacing “ with “ or am I going crazy? (Maybe that was three questions.)

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Keyword here is "curly quotes"

03-03-2013, 03:40 PM	#1
camdenmaine Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: iPad, Kidle	What happened to &XXquo; characters? I carefully replaced all opening quotes with “ and closing quotes with ” and similar changes for single quotes and dashes etc. Everything looks fine in book view. But when I look at the files in code view, I see that Sigil has replaced some of the &XXquo; characters with their typographic equivalents, “, ‘, ’, and ”. I'm not sure this is wrong, but it's a surprise. I'm also surprised that Sigil seems to have done this only in some files. I guess I don't really understand the difference between keying in a typographic quote directly, say <Option><Left Bracket> for “ or entering “. So . . . two questions: is my epub okay with some glyphs in one form and some in the other? and Is Sigil replacing “ with “ or am I going crazy? (Maybe that was three questions.) t. Keyword here is "curly quotes"