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Single quotes to double quotes?
Does anybody know of a way that I can take an ebook and convert all of the single quotes in it to double quotes, while leaving the apostrophes alone, and converting what were previously double quotes to single? For example:
Jane said, 'Bob said, "I heard you" when we went to John's house' Should be: "Bob said, 'I heard you' when we went to John's house" I can't do a find replace in word because that messes up all of the apostrophes and whatnot. Thanks. |
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Somewhere on MobileRead is a recent answer to this. It involved using regular expressions to convert apostrophes between letters to another character then bulk converting the remaining apostrophes to double quotes then converting the other character back to apostrophes. There was, I believe another step to deal with possessive apostrophes that follow s (as in "the Jones' house")
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Simplest solution that I have ever seen to this on another forum I frequent:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1589696 |
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I do a search for [space]" and change them to something like %% same for "[space]
Then search for [space]' and change to [space]" same for the other side '[space] Then search and replace for %% to ' |
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A search for "typographic quotes" yielded this thread.
Of interest in that thread is a link to GutenMarks. |
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* You can use Sigil to edit the ePUB, and Calibre to convert it to other formats if you need it. ** This works for the books I create, because I take the trouble to manually replace every " and ' with the correct codes. |
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I was thinking the same as some- I just do (space)" and "(space) and replace as needed. Has always worked for me for similar issues.
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nothing wrong with the "z" ....
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