[bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:14:42 -0700
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
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
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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 wrote
>HI 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 is
possible.
>
>Mayrie
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill
>O'Connell
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>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks
>
>Why would I hear space, comma, apostrophe. I assumed that was a
>Kurzweil scanning error.
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>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:12 PM
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> > Hi 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.
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