[duxuser] Re: An apostrophe s in Microsoft Word

  • From: Steve Dresser <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:05:36 -0500



Catherine,

In my experience, Word's "Smart Quotes" are the problem. I've never had a problem with any Word document that was generated with Smart Quotes turned off. I'm quite sure Lloyd's explanation is correct, and quite accurately describes the problem.

Steve

On Tuesday 3/28/06 13:35 Catherine Thomas wrote:


George,
I've encountered the mis-translation of the apostrophe by MSWORd in many different circumstances. I've found it in documents prepared by others which I have been asked to transcribe and I have also encountered it in hard copy braille. The problem in the case is NOT with Duxbury. It is with MSWORd. The question again is what would cause ordinary literary text prepared by the average person to translate the apostrophe in these various alternative ways? Can the apostrophe be produced in various ways on the keyboard? Do various typefaces under MSWORD show the apostrophe differntly? Duxbury is doing its job--it's translating what it sees. Since not all MSWORD documents have this problem the version sn't the issue (I don't think).
Catherine



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