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Quoth · 09-26-2020, 09:43 AM

I've decided to replace ' and " with prime marks on measurements as it seems very few ereaders don't support it and unless you switch off Smart Quotes it can mess them up. I'm considering turning off SmartQuotes as I can easily do AltGr-v, AltGr-b, AltGr-V, and AltGr-B for “ ” ‘ ’ and have the primes saved in Insert Custom Character. I may add them later to Compose, though compose ' and compose " are in use.

SmartQuotes is actually dumb and broken. '89 gives ‘89 instead of ’89. Also on LO it does “ instead of ” after — or …!

I wonder does the old Nook without them work if the epub has an embedded font like Georgia that does have them?

09-26-2020, 09:43 AM	#8
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,238 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I've decided to replace ' and " with prime marks on measurements as it seems very few ereaders don't support it and unless you switch off Smart Quotes it can mess them up. I'm considering turning off SmartQuotes as I can easily do AltGr-v, AltGr-b, AltGr-V, and AltGr-B for “ ” ‘ ’ and have the primes saved in Insert Custom Character. I may add them later to Compose, though compose ' and compose " are in use. SmartQuotes is actually dumb and broken. '89 gives ‘89 instead of ’89. Also on LO it does “ instead of ” after — or …! I wonder does the old Nook without them work if the epub has an embedded font like Georgia that does have them? Last edited by Quoth; 09-26-2020 at 09:46 AM.