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Originally Posted by Hoods7070
Well, since from the discussion above it seems my way is as easy and efficient as any other, and not remotely complicated, I think I'll stick with it, bar some day finding a way to force my keyboard to type "smart quotes" as I go.
i.e. a) edit in Sigil correcting quotes - using keyboard straight quotes as needed, then b) converting ALL quotes to straight via search/replace, c) using Book Polish with smart quotes checked - alll quotes are fixed to curly quotes. Three simple steps and it's done, so I suppose there was no point whining in the first place.  |
The point is, though, that it's NOT done. If you don't do manual checking, you're doomed to failure, because no automated system is going to get it right.
In particular, words which begin in apostrophes, such as the 'Tis that Paul mentioned in an earlier post will break most automated systems, because the automated system can't know whether it's an open left single quote or a right single quote (it is of course a right quote).
The bottom line is that by all means use your automated replacement, but then you MUST check by hand afterwards and fix the things it's got wrong.