[bksvol-discuss] Re: apostrophes where there should be quotes?

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:16:56 -0700 (PDT)

But if it's a British book, then you'd have to change
the double quotes that are quotes inside quotes to
single quotes. And you'd have to do it individually,
because if you did a global replace, all the real
apostrophes would become double quotes. smile

Cindy

--- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jill, Cindy. Lori and all:
> 
> I know I disagree with some of my more experienced
> colleagues but if it 
> clearly is a quotation I would change the
> apostrophes to quotation marks.  I 
> have yet to see Kurrweil confuse the two and
> although I do not have the 
> reader include punctuation as I can see enough to
> know what it is  I will in 
> the future have him include the punctuation long
> enough to know if the 
> punctuation is read correctly. It never occurred to
> me that it might not be 
> so thank you for drawing my attention to the
> possibility. I am currently 
> working on an rtf in Kurzweil but it has no
> quotation marks for the 
> quotations so I will have to work on another book to
> check but I can go back 
> and forth and will let everyone know if what the
> ears hear is what the eyes 
> see - unless of course someone else comes up with
> the answer first.
> 
> Amy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:14 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: apostrophes where
> there should be quotes?
> 
> 
> > Cindy, Kurzweil calls them apostrophe and I
> wouldn't consider changing 
> > them nor do I believe Bookshare would want us to.
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 5:40 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: apostrophes where
> there should be quotes?
> >
> >
> >> Is it a British book? They use single quotes
> instead
> >> of double quotes and vice versa, i.e.,  double
> for a
> >> quote within a quote. I don't know whether it
> would
> >> say apostrophe or single quote. They
> >> look alike to me, and I don't know if they are
> called
> >> something different.
> >>
> >> Cindy
> >>
> >> --- Lori <twilight2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm validating and it appears that the quotes
> have
> >>> scanned as apostrophes or
> >>> maybe single quotes. So, while reading using the
> >>> screenreader it is saying
> >>> apostrophe at the beginning and end of each
> >>> quotation. Any suggestions on
> >>> how to address this?
> >>>
> >>> L...
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