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Old 06-26-2010, 07:21 AM   #5
Valloric
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I wasn't trying to be...I dunno, pissy?...about the curly quotes; I'm trying to understand what happens and why.
Why do you think that I thought you were being "pissy"? I thought your question was perfectly acceptable.

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What confuses my wee brain is that if I use the standard html “ or ” to type the curlies in CV (or BV) I get something different than the curly quotes rendered when I've imported a document from Word->stripped html->Sigil. I'm not having issues with rendering or being unable to see; I'm getting different types of quotes--in other words, THREE different types--and just trying to wrap my noggin around how to facilitate getting consistent quote types, whatever it takes.
That's freaking weird. Could you make an epub that displays these three different sets and then upload it to the tracker?

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Apparently I inadvertently wandered into a heated topic. Sorry.
Um... what? It's not a heated topic, and I'm not angry. There was a rather unpleasant guy on the tracker but that's his problem. It was a long time ago.

You have nothing to apologize for.
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