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Originally Posted by lumpynose
I'm working on a book written by an American author where it's using British style single quotes, [...] I would like to change the quotes to American style double quotes.
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This same question gets asked many times over the years...
There isn't a magical way to do it. It's a lot of hard work and elbow grease, and you'll probably be introducing a lot of wrongly flipped ones that have to be manually found/corrected.
I believe the last time I wrote about this was in 2016, about halfway down
my Post #26 in "How to convert straight quotes to smart 'curly' typographer's quotes".
I explained the approximate method I use to go from:
American “” (Outer) ‘’ (Inner) <-> British ‘’ (Outer) “” (Inner).
You'll also have to handle punctuation inside/outside the quotation marks.
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Originally Posted by lumpynose
The PDF for it that I downloaded from archive.org shows American style double quotes.
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My advice, work from a PDF that matches the kind of punctuation you intend. It would probably introduce less errors.