Kim, you could have done this with a quick find and replace. The double quote is ^0034 and the single quote is ^0039. This would, of course, change any quotes within quotes to single quotes, but considering that there are a lot fewer of them, it would have been much faster.
Melissa Smith On 5/14/2010 10:23 AM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi, Mayrie, the book I'm reading also has those British quotation marks. I spent the first couple of days getting rid of those apostrophes before and after dialog and was informed by the submitter about the difference between American and British punctuation. Guess how I spent the next day. That's right, I had to delete all those lovely quotation marks and replace what was there before. Fortunately for me, I just had to do a couple of chapters. It would have been a real slog if I'd done half the book (shudder). Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 8:15 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks HI Debby, I wouldn't worry about it. If the same book were printed by a U.S. publisher, they might well turn the apostrophes into what we as American readers are used to seeing surrounding conversation. I don't think you need to stress about it. Just my opinion though. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 7:19 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks Hi Mayrie! One of the books I proofread a while back had British quotations, (single quotes). In my ignorance, I thought that they were scanos, being unaware of the different systems of punctuation. This discussion makes me think I should have left the book as it was. I wouldn't want to do anything that would change an author's work. Does anything need to be done about it? Debby At 06:45 PM 5/12/2010, Mayrie ReNae wroteHI Jill, If your book was printed in Brittain, apostrophes replace our quotation marks, so, if Kurzweil saw someone talking, and the quotation mark, in this case an apostrophe, were preceded by a comma, you could have what you describe if K1000 perceived that a space occurred before the comma. If the text was justified in the book, as I understand many are, this ispossible.Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks Why would I hear space, comma, apostrophe. I assumed that was a Kurzweil scanning error. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons"<akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To:<mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] British quotation marksHi all, Actually, what you should search for are things like the following. space apostrophe apostrophe space paragraph apostrophe period apostrophe comma apostrophe In short all those things that you would use a normal quotation mark for. I had to do this for a couple of the Fidelma books. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx web site: http://www.portaltutoring.info Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. 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