Thread: curly quotes in sigil?
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Old 07-16-2016, 06:19 AM   #26
Notjohn
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
What I usually see is smartening routines taking the rap for MS Word's age-old penchant for reversing the typographic closing double quote when one immediately follows an emdash (whenever the autocorrect "Replace as you Type" setting for replacing straight quotes with "smart" quotes is enabled in Word).
I'd forgotten about that one! Fortunately it leaps right off the page or screen when I proofread, unlike 'ell no, I won't go!
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