Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexBell
What would you do if you were preparing an ebook for the MR library from a book which used this style?
|
I briefly did a bit of work with Distributed Proofreaders, and they had a rule against changing the text. You corrected OCR errors, and could change obvious typos that one of the original editors missed, but you left everything else the same as on the printed page. Grammatical fashions change, so "correcting" the text just looks silly a few decades down the road. You can save yourself a lot of effort and grief by just not changing stuff.
That said, I'd remove the extra quotes, because they'll look stupid when reflowed into different lines.