[bksvol-discuss] Re: single quotes and apostraphes
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:01:10 -0500
Forgot to leave the message that didn't turn out as well I think.
Anyway this is the one in which apostrophes read as "single close
quote"..
Pam
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:46:15 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>Thanks for the feedback, Lisa and Shannon.
>
>With the sentences I originally sent, Shannon's reader
>read them properly but Lisa's Jaws read everything as
>apostrophes.
>
>Here are the sentences two different ways. "I'm" and
>"grandfather's" should read as apostrophes. There
>should be a single quote before"Vivian" and after
>"outside." #1 uses the regular key on my keyboard,
>the one udner the double-quote mark. Number 2 uses
>that for the apostrophe and the combination of
>keystrokes for the single quote.
>
>Please let me know which is better for you. If the
>latter is better for most of you, I'll start using
>that.
>
>Cindy
>
>(1) This is " . . . So I?m not terribly concerned
>for you. My grandfather?s got real senility, okay?
>Last week he said to me, ?Vivian put the popcorn
>outside.? . . .
>
>
>(2) " . . . So I?m not terribly concerned for you. My
>grandfather?s got real senility, okay? Last week he
>said to me, ?Vivian put the popcorn outside.? . . .
>
>
>
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