MS Word uses the expression "smart quotes" to refer to the opening and closing quotes. They have different ASCII values from the straight quotes. I have copied below the relevant tip from Jake's site:
http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tip.asp?id=18 Opening and Closing Double Quotes:These characters are alternatives for a generic double quote (character 34). Generic double quotes are correct when used for both opening and closing double quotes. Many programs substitute opening double quotes (character 147) and closing double quotes (character 148) for generic double quotes, and they may or may not be a problem in the final BookShare file. Pages scanned using OpenBook often contain closing quotes in the places where opening quotes should appear, which can look quite messy to people reading with software that differentiates between types of quotes. If you know your software substitutes opening and closing double quotes for generic double quotes, it might be best to open the RTF file in Wordpad or some other word processor and perform a find and replace operation to replace opening double quotes (character 147) and closing double quotes (character 148) withgeneric double quotes (character 34).
Grandma Cindy, this might explain why you saw some opening quotes facing the wrong direction.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let's hear it for the deaf man
Will you please tell me the difference between a smart quote and a straight quote. I'm using Kurzweil and I do have a braille display. When I'm scanning a book as those from the UK, they often use apostrophes instead of quotes and I don't change those. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let's hear it for the deaf manHi all,Grandma, I'm not sure what happens to the things, but somehow, in this particular book, all the quotation marks became capital O's with accents on them, umlaots (sp) I think. Whatever it was, it made the book totally unreadable because every time there was a person speaking or there was a word with an apostrophe, you got this capital umlot O. I think it was something in the translation from whatever software it was scanned in. I believe that the quotes were smart, at least that's what I think happened. You could try downloading the book and seeing what I mean. I think the problem showed up in the DAISY copy as well as the BRF one. I'm not sure how else to describe what happened. It was, err, um, well, it was interesting, in the Chinese sense of the word. "May you live in interesting times."<smiling> Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring NEW EMAIL ADDRESS EFFECTIVE NOW: AKP@xxxxxxxxxxx OLD EMAIL, EFFECTIVE TILL 09/30/07: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.portaltutoring.info "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.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/977 - Release Date: 8/28/2007 4:29 PMTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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