[duxuser] single quotes
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:48:57 -0500 (EST)
In print, the single quote symbol is actually a different sign from
ordinary quotation marks. The sign is produced by using the accent-grave
key which is located to the left of the number one on most keyboards. I
think some typists may be using an alternative key to produce this sign.
An example of a sentence including single quotes would be the following.
The teacher said, "John, in last week's essay you used the word
`amazing` 97 times."
This sentence contains ordinary quotes produced using the shift of the
apostrophe, an actual apostrophe, and single quots produced using the
accent-grave key. Perhaps people might want to experiment with a sentence
like this to determine if "smart quotes" is in fact having an impact on
their translation. Single quotes should tranlate in braille as dot six
followed by dots 2-3-6 for an opening quote and dots 3-5-6 followed by a
dot 3 as a closing quote.
Catherine
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