Yes, this is no typo, I am really replacing all quotes with an identical quote. The first one is replacing all occurrences of " with ". The way I clean up my text is usually by loading it into a word processor and doing a series of search and replaces. Bad advice! I will show you how to do it right because publishing a book without proper typographical characters is like writing text without ever using the letter ‘e’. They usually stem from people not properly understanding the workings of eBook creation and going for a cop-out instead of trying to really address the problems they might have encountered. and I cannot stress how misguided those recommendations are. I can’t even count how many times I have read on message boards, not to use curly quotes, ellipses etc. By that, I mean a version that has proper curly quotes, correct dashes, including em dashes, ellipses and so forth. The first thing we need is a cleaned up text version of your manuscript. I know you’ve been waiting for this with held breath, so let’s just roll. Now that we’ve exhaustively covered the preliminaries, it is finally time to put it all to work for us and begin creating an actual eBook source file. To read the previous one, please click here
This is the sixth installment of a series of articles.
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