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Old 04-27-2014, 03:56 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Roger wants to learn what can be expected from the smartening algorithm. I believe studying small test cases (that he crafts specifically for this purpose) is going to help him achieve that goal more easily (and systematically) than eyeballing entire books' worth of random punctuation differences will. But you're free to disagree.
I followed the first course of action (comparing a whole book) which was disappointing. The syntax was poor and the collect was the same.
- straight apostrophes were changed to curly ones
- three points to horizontal ellipsis
- emdash changed to endash
The last one is not really convenient for my use. For dialogues we can use the former or the latter, but I prefer using emdash.

And that's it. So, it appears either to be a very basic tool or a very poor book.

I will now follow DiapDealer advice to get forcefully more information.

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