Thread: Single quotes to double quotes?
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Old 10-08-2010, 03:43 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
Can I ask, if I may, why you would bother? I have lots of print books from the UK and commonwealth which use single quotes where US books use double quotes. It makes so little difference to me that I had to go to the books to check whether they used single or double quotes.

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For example, If you are doing a commonwealth edition, maybe due to region restrictions, hence changing all the lack of vowels in words. removing all the silly "z"s in words then you would also need to change the quote marks.
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