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Old 09-01-2015, 05:51 AM   #47
Notjohn
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All mine are straight to begin with, because I compose in WordStar. Then I do a search & replace in Word (also for double-hyphens, which become em dashes).

An interesting pooh trap is the apostrophe that appears at the beginning of a truncated word. Word of course thinks it's the start of an interior quote, so makes it lsquo, whereas it should be rsquo.

Sorry about the mis-reading! You really had me going there for a moment. I looked up the html tag for apostrophe and was horrified to see that it was straight! A life totally mis-spent; seventy years of proof-reading down the drain! Fortunately I decided to let common sense take precedence over '
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