Thanks, Roger — Madeleine already did check in, and what prevails is the
injunction to change no text in the books. So we are going to finesse the
difficult passages with [begin block quote] and [end block quote].
On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender
"rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If Bookshare has a different policy on this - and it does have some different
policies on some things - let Madeleine intervene here, but I can tell you
what I learned in high school English classes. That is, if the quotation is
clearly indicated to be a quotation by means such as indentation no quotation
marks are required. If quotation marks are used in a quotation that spans
multiple paragraphs the opening quotation mark should be used at the
beginning of the first paragraph and at the beginning of each subsequent
paragraph, but not at the end of any paragraph except the last paragraph in
which case the closing quotation mark is added.
On 7/20/2015 4:43 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
Hi Beverly,
I can’t help with the second question, but for the first one, no spaces.
Evan
From: Beverly Cory <mailto:beverlycory@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 4:36 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] new proofreader questions
I am a new proofreader, looking for help with quotation marks. Currently I
am reading a biography with lots of quoted material.
Question 1: When a single quote mark is followed by a double quote, should
there be a space or no space between the two marks? Example:
“...and that word is 'Tragedy,' " she told them.
Should this be 'Tragedy,'" or 'Tragedy,' " -- how do the tools translate
these?
Question 2: This book has many block quotations, which originally appear
indented and in a smaller font, without quotation marks. I read in the
archives that these should be set off with quotes before and after. When one
of these block quotations includes many separate paragraphs, is anything
further needed? In one case, the block quotation is a letter that runs more
than 3 pages long, with many paragraphs. Does one open quote at the
beginning and one close quote three pages later do the trick? Need anything
else?
Thanks for any advice from those with more experience!
Beverly
