[BetterRed]

@DiapDealer - I would hope that this

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Irrespective of what quotes are used (single, double, curly, straight or guillemots [sic]) to check dialogue one needs something like Toxaris' addon for Word - 'tis excellent

was evidence that I am not conflating punctuation smartening and dialogue checking.

I am fully aware that your smarten punctuation does not do dialogue checking and that Toxaris's dialogue checking doesn't do punctuation checking.

I originally responded to a post from theducks in which he wrote

They are a PAIR & ldaquo; and & rdaquo;

That is his capitalisation. If the publisher enforces one of the common style guides, such as Chicago then the quotes won't come in pairs - period

BR