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Originally Posted by Notjohn
The CSM gives this example, of a quote within a quote within a quote: “I eat what I see.”’” But on the printed page, there is a discernible (though just discernible) space between the single quote and the enclosing double quotes.
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If there are outer + inner quotes right next to eachother, typographically, there should be a thin space in between:
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This is a sample of “ ‘Outer Quotes’ right next to ‘inner quotes.’ ”
Although with the problems with many ereader fonts missing the thin space character, you may want to use a non-breaking space to be more compatible (although I find this to be much too large):
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This is a sample of “ ‘Outer Quotes’ right next to ‘inner quotes.’ ”
I just settle on this:
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This is a sample of “‘Outer Quotes’ right next to ‘inner quotes.’”
and hope that the kerning on the device/user font would properly kern the “‘ and ’” pair.
Having normal spaces around the quotation marks might lead to the device causing some ugly line breaks and/or the quotation marks may get mangled if you run it through some "smarten punctuation" algorithms.
Side Note: I ran into this same exact question when I was first OCRing books. I thought that the space between quotation marks was a typo the first few times I ran across it (it rarely occurs in the books/journals I convert). So I went hunting down the explanation. Don't have a specific source, but I recall spending a few days reading all the sites/topics on the subject.
