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Originally Posted by theducks
I simply Un-RAR'd the file and viewed it with epub-reader (firefox plugin), dropped onto my reader.
I used WinRAR on XP and "Archive Manager" on Ubuntu Lucid.
No conversion. (Calibre Conversion did not fix, either) These are curlly Quotes, open and close
Strange. I have basic USA English configurations.
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I should have specified that what I see are curly "s and 's, both directions. I also tried it under 3 ebook readers I have installed under Kubuntu (Calibre, FBReader, and Okular), all three see things normally. (Okular sees the quotes as non-curly, but they're still quotes.)
That said, I seem to have noticed a different formatting problem, one that can be confusing and/or annoying to some people, myself included. That problem is a lack of scene breaks (usually a blank line within a chapter). I haven't finished reading chapter 1 yet, but I've already noticed a couple of places in that chapter where I believe there should be a blank line, but there isn't. Upon looking at the source code to the chapter, I noticed that at both locations where I thought there should be an empty line, there were two empty lines, but no formatting to indicate that there should be an empty line. In other words, there's a break in the source code, but not in the final product.
Is this a human error, a software bug (in the creation process), or something else? Assuming that every such scene change is the same (paragraph before ends with </p>; two blank lines; new paragraph starts with <p class="calibre1">), then it shouldn't be too much work for a nerd like me to figure out how to edit every file to fix it for me; however, other people may have the same problem and not have the knowhow to fix it on their own.