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From: Julie Kidd <<A HREF="mailto:"></A>>
Subject: TMG-L: RE: tmg-l curly quote marks
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:24:03 -0400


Message text written by Karla Huebner:
>To get real quote marks and apostrophes in HTML, open the HTML document in
Notepad or your favorite HTML editor and do a search and replace. Don't do
it globally or you'll regret it, since of course you want both opening and
closing quotes. If I remember correctly, the code is &#147 and &#148 for
double quotes and &#146 for apostrophes. It is slightly tedious but I
think worth it unless you update your page constantly. I also usually code
for n-dashes and m-dashes and for all the diacriticals (though
I think TMG does the diacriticals on its own if you've entered them there).
Note: Netscape and IE permit you to leave out the # sign but I don't
recommend it because I found that the Mac AOL browser wouldn't handle the
codes properly without it. (In fact, the Mac AOL browser interprets a lot
of things strangely--ran into this when I made a basic web page for someone
who used the Mac AOL browser and it turned out to be a project from hell!)

Some of the HTML books have good lists of codes for this kind of thing. I
use Liz Castro's book on HTML (Peachpit Press) but think the first edition
has a better list than the second edition.<

I don't know how much it differs between word processors -- I use
WordPerfect, and the computer you are using -- I'm *not* using a Mac. But,
as I stated in my original message. If you do a global search and replace,
just using the quote mark. . . . it will adjust them properly to open or
closing quotes, dependent upon their location. I do not use the code for
the curly quote - just simply replace them. I do the same for apostrophes.
I do this *all* the time, and it works beautifully. I edit a quarterly, so
I get lots of submissions in disk form, and this is one of my standard
corrections -- as is the em-dash, but it's a few more steps.

Julie


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