I don't know why it wouldn't come out well in the Braille format. The
quotes will just be apostrophes, as they are supposed to be in this
particular case.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:06 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes
Cindy,
Yep, English author. And published within the past 15 years. I would have no problem leaving things as they are, but I don't believe it will come out well in the Braille format. I'm hoping someone can comment on this concern.
I've converted what I've scanned into the rtf format, and the quotes are still appearing as single quotes or apostrophes.
Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes
Scott,
Is this a book written by an English as opposed to an American author? The English do it that way. They also, I've seen in books I've validated, omit the period we put after titles like Mr., and put punctuation marks outside quotation marks instead of inside, as we do. Some of that may depend on when the book was published, but I'm not sure.
To find out more about the differences, as well as an interesting take on grammar and punctuation, I recommend Eats Shoots and Leaves, which is in the collection. It's an amusing book.
Which reminds me, spelling differs, too, z being used in words like amusing instead of s.
When I validate a book like that, I don't change anything but I do put in the long synopsis that the book used English rather than American spelling and punctuation.
Grandma Cindy
--- Scott Blanks <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm using Openbook to scan a novel. Where dialog appears in the book, Openbook is identifying what should be double quotes at the beginning and end of spoken passages as single quotes. I'm concerned that all of these single quotes will have to be converted to the proper quotation marks. Am I correct in this assumption, and if so, is there an easy way to do this? Or another thought ... is there a scanning setting I can adjust within Openbook so the inaccurate marks will be seen properly?
Thanks, Scott
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