[bksvol-discuss] Re: Single Quotations Throughout

Does it have British spelling? If so, then the single quotes are probably 
intentional. Even if it doesn't have British spelling, if it was printed in 
England, the single quotes may be intentional. In all the books I've scanned, 
or validated, I've never seen a consistent error like that, which leads me to 
believe that it is likely that they are not an error.

I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall that you have an Optacon. If so, 
it would be easy to check on something like that. If you don't, maybe you can 
get someone who can see to check a couple of passages to see what the quotes 
look like. There's no way I would  make such a wholesale change like that 
without checking very carefully in whatever way I could to see what is in the 
book.

Evan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lori Castner 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:07 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Single Quotations Throughout


  Hi, Everyone,

  I am editing a book which was submitted as an .ark file.  Throughout the 
file, single quotes are used rather than regular double quote marks (' rather 
than ").  Should I replace the single quotation marks with double quotes or 
leave them.  Since this occurs throughout the book, I am hesitant to make the 
change, but maybe it should be done?

  Thanks for thoughts.

  Cat Lover Lori

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