[bksvol-discuss] Re: single closed quotes and apostraphys
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:28:44 -0500
Change twin occurrences of single quotes to a regular quotation mark. Once
you have done that you can do a mass replacement of remaining single
quotes to apostrophes.
Guido
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Hello list,
This may be nothing but anoying to me, but it is.
I use Window Eyes to access the computer. I am validating a rtf file and
it
has alot of words like I'll and don't and she'd... nearly all the
abreviations you could think of. My bother is that while editing this rtf
in
word the words brake on the punctuation. for example i'll will read i l l
and don't reads like don t. if I arrow across one letter at a time I hear
i
single closed quote ll.
Now the funny part. If I delete the single closed quote and put in an '
(apostraphy) the word is read correctly.
Now I know this may sound silly, but there is apparently a difference
between single closed quotes and apostraphys.
My question is should I try to change them all to be apostraphys or leave
them as single closed quotes?
They bother me but I don't know if it makes a differense to others. I
assume
they must look the same to the sighted but I don't know if that is
different
in brail. I know it makes a differense to the screen reader.
What do you think?
If I should change them is there a way to do a global find and replace for
a
single closed quote?
Thanks for your time. Sorry it was so long.
Shannon
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