Apostrophes

[Cousin Crazy]

So I'm submitting my stories to online publications in the body of an email....

Here's the problem...

It appears my apostrophes and quotation marks are curved.

Somehow this gets twisted when I send it in an email into unusual and unreadable characters.

I've been told to use straight apostrophes.

I know I'm an idiot, but is this a font issue?

How do I straighten out my apostrophes?


Thank you for your input.

 

[TheEarl]

This is indeed a font issue. If you use a different font to the common Arial or Times New Roman, then sometimes different programs have different interpretations of what some of the characters look like. This happens when I use Garamond on my printer; it changes my commas, apostrophies and speech marks into weird and wonderful shapes. Best solution is to use Times New Roman or Arial and that should sort it.

The Earl

 

[gaigirl]

Working in Word

If you are, go into preferences and change curly quotes to smart quotes. They are straight. If that isn't right-- use help index and smart quotes as the key word.

I don' t think this is always a font issue. I have the same problem when I transfer word docs to pagemaker, or email into word.

G'Luck--

 

[Whispersecret]

The site uses the Verdana font. Maybe you should submit with that.

 

[wildsweetone]

How do I straighten out my apostrophes?

tickle it's........ '

 

[Cousin Crazy]

You people are too smart for your own good.
Thank you again.

 

[Weird Harold]

It appears my apostrophes and quotation marks are curved.

Somehow this gets twisted when I send it in an email into unusual and unreadable characters.

Cuved quotes are what MS Word calls "Smart Quotes." to get rid of them, go to tools/autocorrect.../autoformat and clear the "replace straight quotes with smart quotes" chck box.

Once you have the check-box cleared, use edit/find&replace to find " and replace with " to turn everything back to straight quotes. Do the same for '

An alternative is to save the file as Text and re-open it before cutting and pasting into an e-mail. (Note: this works with MS Word 97 and later, but NOT with WordPerfect 8 and later.)

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Cousin Crazy said: How do I straighten out my apostrophes?

tickle it's........ '

Another way could be to introduce the apostrophes to a really nice colon..?