[bksvol-discuss] Re: smart quotes
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:55:18 -0400 (EDT)
OK, I did that.
But how the hell was I supposed to know I had to do that? What other
weird-ass thing is Daisy doing to the files I've submitted, thinking
they're as good as I can make them? Anything else Bookshare can do to
make me feel like all my valuable time is being totally wasted?
"Ha-ha! Every book you've validated is a complete mess!"
Thanks a million.
Tracy
> Hi Tracy,
>
> The problem with smart quotes is that they appear as â characters in the
> converted DAISY file which appears on Bookshare. This means that, in the
> RTF file, they will still appear as smart quotes and not as â characters.
> Smart quotes and generic double quotes differ only in their ASCII values
> in terms of how a screen reader will announce them and output them to a
> Braille display, so to replace them, you'll have to do a Find/Replace in
> Word with ASCII values. The opening smart quote is ASCII 147, the closing
> is ASCII 148, and the generic one is ASCII 34; to specify ASCII or ANSI
> characters in the Find/Replace dialog, type a caret (^, SHIFT+6), followed
> by the character code. So, first perform a Find/Replace, typing ^0147 in
> the Find edit field and ^0034 in the Replace edit field, and Replace All;
> then, perform another Find/Replace, this time typing ^0148 in the Find
> field and again ^0034 in the Replace field. If that doesn't work for you,
> omit the first zero after the carets in
> all cases (i.e., the sequence in each edit field would then be a caret
> followed by a three-digit number). This should replace the smart quotes
> with normal ones.
>
> Incidentally, and this is just an aside, though it relates, Word, by
> default, is set to automatically replace normal quotes with smart quotes
> when you type a quote (SHIFT+APOSTROPHE). If you want to disable this
> specific replacement, go to Tools > AutoAutoCorrect Options in Word.
> You'll land on the AutoCorrect tab, so CTRL+TAB once to land on the
> AutoFormat As You Type tab You'll land in a list view of options. DOWN
> ARROW once to land on the Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes check box.
> Press SPACE to uncheck it, then ENTER to close the dialog/save changes.
>
> HTH,
> Maria
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:27 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] smart quotes
>
> I can't even find any a circumflex in my rtf file. Either this Bob is
> making it up, or editing in rtf is totally pointless, and I might as well
> give up validating altogether, as I appear to be completely wasting my
> time.
> I have gotten a lot of pleasure from validating for Bookshare over the
> last 3 or 4 years, whatever it is, but how the hell can I fix things I
> can't even find?
> First I spend a lot of time working on a book that was a duplicate
> submission, and now these stupid smart quotes, whatever that is. I'm very
> frustrated!!!!!!
> Tracy
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