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Originally Posted by BetterRed
If you can wrangle your books into Word 2007/10/13/16 you could use the Dialogue Checker in Toxaris' excellent e-Book Tools - a Word add-in. |
I second this. The Dialogue Check also catches mismatched parenthesis/brackets, and handles quotation marks in other languages. It is extremely thorough, and is what I exclusively use now.
I used to use a lot of hackish Regex, but it would always miss hard cases, especially cases of inner/outer quotes.
If you still want to use Regex though, as sjfan mentioned, the most important step is to first smarten the punctuation. There's not a reliable way you can fix missing quotations with dumb quotes.
For example, this is one I used to use:
Search: (“[^”\r\n]*)</p>\s+<p>
Replace: \1
(There is a space after that "\1 " in Replace.)
That Regex would look for a LEFT double quote in a paragraph without a RIGHT closing quote.
Anyway, there was a lot of quotation mark discussion in previous topics which might also help you:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=292818
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=212029
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Please don't help until the OP comes back and can prove that the eBook was bought. I took a look at a sample from Amazon and a sample from Kobo and both had no problem. So I don't think this is a legit copy the OP is talking about.
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This is absurd.
The topic is about fixing breaks in dialogue, which is a very common error across all types of ebooks.