[bksvol-discuss] Re: questions about quotes
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:41:30 -0400
Unfortunately, you're not doing a book according to standard usage. You're
doing a book that someone wrote regardless of what usage may be. So ask the
person who has the book to check. I've seen all kinds of variants depending on
how the author felt about it. Usage doesn't matter worth a damn, so dredging
out old highschool text books won't tell you anything about a particular book.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chanelle Allen
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 11:35 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] questions about quotes
Hello Volunteer List,
I know that when two people are speaking, quotations need to be on two
separate lines. My question is about text immediately before and after
quotations. For example, if a complete sentence ends without quotations,
followed by a quotation, should there be a line between the end of the sentence
and the beginning of a quote instead of a space?
I have the same question about the end of a quotation and the beginning of
the next sentence.
Also, it seems like the apostrophe should be substituted for a quote within a
quote. What is the code to type into find and replace that represents the
double quotation? I know that this is a really basic question, but I thought
that I would ask so that I don't badly mess up the books I am proofreading.
Chanelle
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