![]() |
#16 | ||
null operator (he/him)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 21,733
Karma: 29711016
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
|
@DiapDealer - I would hope that this
Quote:
I am fully aware that your smarten punctuation does not do dialogue checking and that Toxaris's dialogue checking doesn't do punctuation checking. I originally responded to a post from theducks in which he wrote Quote:
![]() BR |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#17 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 28,574
Karma: 204127028
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#18 | |
null operator (he/him)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 21,733
Karma: 29711016
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
|
Quote:
![]() Hmmm - multi paragraph quotations and multi-paragraph dialogue are not normally styled the same -- are they? I thought for a quotation the first para will have an opening quote but subsequent para's wont, and the last para will have a closing quote. So in that case there is a PAIR. "In matters of style, swim with the current; .in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson BR |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#19 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 28,574
Karma: 204127028
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
![]() Spoiler:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#20 |
Resident Curmudgeon
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 79,763
Karma: 145864619
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
I have seen plenty of auto-smart routines getting single quotes backwards when it's supposed to be a left facing apostrophe in front of a word with no closing quote.
Also, I've see these routines get the left facing double quote backwards when a left facing apostrophe is in front. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#21 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 28,574
Karma: 204127028
Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
|
Quote:
I don't. What I usually see is smartening routines taking the rap for MS Word's age-old penchant for reversing the typographic closing double quote when one immediately follows an emdash (whenever the autocorrect "Replace as you Type" setting for replacing straight quotes with "smart" quotes is enabled in Word). Haven't seen anything like that in a long while with my SmartyPants-based plugins (except when feeding it tag/entity soup disguised as an ebook and/or seeking to thwart it with weird-ass situations that almost never happen in real life). Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-17-2015 at 09:01 PM. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#22 | |
null operator (he/him)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 21,733
Karma: 29711016
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
|
Quote:
Even if it did originate at MS, how come it manifested elsewhere. MS don't have a track record of making their code available in the public domain. That's the problem with disassembling, as well as filching the IPR you inherit the bugs. Spoiler:
BR DISOSS - a doco system that ran under CICS, its VM equivalent was PROFS. Mainframe stuff from a prior century, might have even been the one before last ![]() Last edited by BetterRed; 03-17-2015 at 11:13 PM. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#23 |
Wizard
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 4,520
Karma: 121692313
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Heemskerk, NL
Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura
|
I don't blame you. Just for this I don't think I would do the same. However, if I think there are serious issues with quotes missing and there is other stuff wrong, I would do it.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#24 | |
mostly an observer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,519
Karma: 987654
Join Date: Dec 2012
Device: Kindle
|
Quote:
I see what your problem is, though. I'm sure you could use regex to replace straight-quote followed by a letter with a “ and then go through and replace a full stop (or comma or question mark or exclam) followed by a straight quote with a “ but personally I would just go through with a search and replace. I have done this in Word, and it's pretty quick. Speaking of quotes in pairs, I have seen a distressing (well, I'm distressed) tendency on the part of reputable newspapers to use only a single pair of quotation marks in an extended quote, one at the beginning and another at the end, with the intervening paragraphs bare of any mark. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25 | |
Bookmaker & Cat Slave
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 11,503
Karma: 158448243
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2
|
Quote:
Hitch |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#26 | |
mostly an observer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,519
Karma: 987654
Join Date: Dec 2012
Device: Kindle
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Curly quotes or apostrophes? | storax | Workshop | 2 | 06-19-2013 11:43 AM |
convert straight quotes to curly quotes | alansplace | Calibre | 3 | 09-25-2010 03:51 PM |
curly quotes | DaleDe | Sigil | 6 | 06-26-2010 10:33 PM |
A tool for converting to curly quotes | Snowman | Workshop | 7 | 02-08-2009 12:22 PM |
Pielrf - Text to LRF with Easy TOC, Headers, Curly-Quotes, etc. (Mac!) | EatingPie | LRF | 104 | 01-12-2009 12:35 PM |