[bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes

  • From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:06:28 -0700

Cindy,

Yep, English author. And published within the past 15 years. I would have no problem leaving things as they are, but I don't believe it will come out well in the Braille format. I'm hoping someone can comment on this concern.

I've converted what I've scanned into the rtf format, and the quotes are still appearing as single quotes or apostrophes.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes



Scott,

Is this a book written by an English as opposed to an
American author? The English do it that way. They
also, I've seen in books I've validated, omit the
period we put after titles like Mr., and put
punctuation marks outside quotation marks instead of
inside, as we do. Some of that may depend on when the
book was published, but I'm not sure.

To find out more about the differences, as well as an
interesting take on grammar and punctuation, I
recommend Eats Shoots and Leaves, which is in the
collection. It's an amusing book.

Which reminds me, spelling differs, too, z being used
in words like amusing instead of s.

When I validate a book like that, I don't change
anything but I do put in the long synopsis that the
book used English rather than American spelling and
punctuation.

Grandma Cindy


--- Scott Blanks <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all,

I'm using Openbook to scan a novel. Where dialog
appears in the book,
Openbook is identifying what should be double quotes
at the beginning and
end of spoken passages as single quotes. I'm
concerned that all of these
single quotes will have to be converted to the
proper quotation marks. Am I
correct in this assumption, and if so, is there an
easy way to do this? Or
another thought ... is there a scanning setting I
can adjust within Openbook
so the inaccurate marks will be seen properly?

Thanks,
Scott


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