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Old 12-30-2016, 07:30 AM   #7
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EDIT The following only takes # 4

Responsible for the content are experts. @chaot compiles and edits the whole bunch to an EPUB - available free of charge to everybody. I will not even ask for donations!
By the way that work will make me also to a (little) expert, for editing EPUBs and Regexes.

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Or do you think that "regular expressions" are little known? If so, really?
Yes, really! Just go to the street and ask some passers-by. I'll bet with you: Until you find someone who knows about, you're half starved and thirsty. Except you live in somewhere like Silicon Valley.
You will think these passers-by are not interested anyway: Yes, the most not. The rest, however, the information acquisition on the Internet will be too inconvenient, to buy a corresponding book too expensive. So much interest does not exist. But the free EPUB for the socalled john (english loo), that's exactly what they need, I guess.

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How hard would it have been to say: "I ran the Smarten Punctuation tool and saw these results. I don't think this is correct."
Not so hard! Only 4 times as many letters, about.

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That's not the point. Unfortunately, MobileRead suppresses quotes in the repeating citation.

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Otherwise people would be raising bug reports because things like two hyphens together did not get converted to an emdash. Unfortunately, you have a situation where the double-hyphen isn't supposed to be smartened, but that is probably rare.
The rare things are that make us happy.

Diap's Editing Toolbag: I will try and report. But not today!

And then a new question arises. Punctuation rules are probably different depending on the language. This should be considered, possibly pointed out.

Last edited by chaot; 12-30-2016 at 07:45 AM. Reason: add: EDIT and ;)
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