[bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:23:27 -0700
Hi, Mayrie, the book I'm reading also has those British quotation marks. I
spent the first couple of days getting rid of those apostrophes before and
after dialog and was informed by the submitter about the difference between
American and British punctuation. Guess how I spent the next day. That's
right, I had to delete all those lovely quotation marks and replace what was
there before. Fortunately for me, I just had to do a couple of chapters. It
would have been a real slog if I'd done half the book (shudder). Regards,
Kim Friedman.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British quotation marks
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
>
>
>
>
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>O'Connell
>Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 PM
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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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> > 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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