![]() ![]() ![]() There should have been no straight quotes in it. I was alerted by an author who was proofing his return book from Amazon’s Kindle people that they were having trouble resetting his now typeset manuscript from a layout artist, because there were both smart (curly) and straight quotes in it. It’s already bolloxed up before I put it in Bookman Old Style, or even my other favorite, Palatino Linotype, which uses straight quotes, but of a different style from Word’s choice. ![]() No matter which original font the author uses, Word changes the quotes, single and double, to straight quotes, when it goes from the author’s computer to mine. ![]() Whenever I receive a manuscript to edit, I automatically change it to a font I find easy on the eyes for the first critique read pre-edit, and looks good for agent submission or self-publishing. ![]()
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