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Would not "replace all" for single quotations also run the risk of having all single quotation marks, including those indicating possession [Amy's book] and contractions [it's, can't, etc.] would become double quotation marks. I find it distracting enough when the computer puts a space before apostrophes and the reader reads "Tom space apostrophe s" or " Tom s " and then continues on with no apostrophe mentioned. I find I have to go back, since the reader has continue on before I catch that something is weird, and figure out that it was supposed to read "Toms" without the apostrophe mentioned. In context. the possessive is clear.
Amy
omsm
--
It if be now, 'tis not to come,
If it be not to come, it will be now,
If it be now now, Yet it will come.
The readiness is all.
Wm. Shakespeare
-------------- Original message from Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>: --------------
> But wouldn't that mean he's lose all the work he'd done so far?
>
I think you could replace the double quote with a single quote. You probably
could do it with Replace All rather than one at a time, unless there are also
> quotes within quotes, if you know what I mean.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 8/15/08, Jill O'Connell wrote:
>
> > From: Jill O'Connell
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotes
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 9:08 PM
> > I would release the book and immediately download it again
> > and preserve it
> > as it was originally.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rick Roderick"
> >
> > To:
> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:42 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] British quotes
> >
> >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I am validating a book written by an American seminary
> > professor but
> > > originally pubished in England.
> > >
> > > The American edition has preserved the British quotes,
> > mostly single.
> > > When I started validating, I didn't realize this
> > and didn't know the
> > > difference.
> > >
> > > After changing the quotes to American style, do I keep
> > going the way I am,
> > > release the book and download it again, preserving the
> > quotes the way the
> > > were.
> > >
> > > What I don't want to do is have half one-way and
> > half the other.
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