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Old 12-30-2016, 05:21 AM   #3
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OK, context: I am writing a book! Both, the subject of the book (regular expressions) and the manual process to produce an EPUB is still largely unknown. Nevertheless, the progress I find remarkable - with confidence, I gladly announce the presentation for Christmas 2017.

These regular expressions are very useful for text editing, HTML & CSS are mandatory anyway. Well, a secondary aspect is that the brain cells get trained.

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I can take a guess that this is after doing a smarten punctuation in the editor.
I thought this had been sufficiently indicated →... (Smarten Punctuation) ...

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The other changes seem to agree with this and you vaguely mention it.
Yes, Boost's get transformed to Boosts (Typewriter apostrophe get transformed to an apostrophe. Correct!?)

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Two hyphens/dashes together like that should get converted to an emdash.
That's the point: Even if it is what has been done in every punctuation smartener that you know. Here, this kind of smartening makes no sense: the text will be alienated.

I have discovered the matter only by chance, the book got over 300 pages.
God knows what else has been 'smartened'?

Does there exist a list what kind of 'things' get smartened and how - before/after status!?

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