[bksvol-discuss] Re: let's hear it for the deaf man
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
A smart quote is the curvie kind that one usually sees
in books or that you learned to make when you were
learning to write. A straight quote is just a short
double straight line. It's the same at the beginning
of a quotation as at the end, whereas smart quotes
curve one way at the beginning and the opposite way at
the end. The British use single quote marks where we
use double and vice versa. They aren't truly
apostrophes, though they look the same.
Cindy
--- Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 man
>
>
> > Hi 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.
> >
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