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Originally Posted by jsc
Why bother? Well, I brought up textquotes specifically in relation to the use of rtf2latex2e. If anyone is going to bother using LaTeX, then there is a higher probability that they have a higher interest in the niggling details of fine typography, making ebooks look like books and not just text files. And text quotes is just one such detail, along with the proper use of hyphens, n-dashes, and m-dashes, ligatures, proper spacing after sentences but not abbreviations, non-breaking spaces, widows and orphans, etc.
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Well, that makes sense, jsc. Please let me reitterate -- I wasn't trying to get anybody to change what they're doing, just trying to understand. Thanks for explaining.
Is it just the hypens that that particular author runs up against the quotes marks? It's probably occurred to you that you could do the same search for hypens as spaces. ( '-"' and '"-' ) Unless of course the joker is also starting his quotations with a hypen: ---"-- quotation"---.
Strikes me as odd that the copy-eds don't rake him over for that. (shrug)
I certainly agree with wanting the text to look the best it can, especially on an e-ink screen (they really are amazing, I can't get over it), adds to the ease of reading at the
very least.