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Old 05-05-2010, 10:25 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Dave_S View Post
Yeah, I think that I recall Valloric mentioning that all input into Sigil is run through HTML Tidy to clean it up when the EPUB is first opened. I think that he mentioned that it was a good idea NOT to cut and paste into Sigil because that would bypass the HTML Tidy cleanup. In this case though, HTML Tidy seems to have masked what may be the cause of the curly quotes problem.
I just confirmed that it was Sigil that brought the issue to light.

I replaced the copy I had in Calibre with an un-touched version... Curly Quotes appear

Nasty feature

I have been in the habit of tweaking margins and indents to make good use of the PEz screen area for my old eyes.
I use Left-Margin 2em, right Margin 16em (to leave room for EPUB page numbers. Paragraph indent 1em (is plenty )
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