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I'm new to the game, but my Spidey-sense tells me that there are very strong feelings amongst the community about quotation marks: The "curly" left and right ones, and the straight ones.
My question is, as long as they are consistent throughout the work, does it really matter?
I used probably 4 different platforms to write my novel (it took me five years, off an on.) Now that I fixed the final edits, I fixed all of the quotations to be consistent because they were funky. The process I used does not have "smart quotes," so they turned out to be straight. I also fixed the apostrophes and single quotes to straight as well.
Fast forward to the formatting process. I'm reading all I can because I plan on formatting myself. I see a bunch of stuff about left quotes and right quotes. Do I need to be concerned with this if I have them presenting straight? One site even made me feel bad for using them, but I really had no choice in this matter.
I get so confused, so easily. To quote Peter Griffin, "I'm so old and in the way." LMAO
My question is, as long as they are consistent throughout the work, does it really matter?
I used probably 4 different platforms to write my novel (it took me five years, off an on.) Now that I fixed the final edits, I fixed all of the quotations to be consistent because they were funky. The process I used does not have "smart quotes," so they turned out to be straight. I also fixed the apostrophes and single quotes to straight as well.
Fast forward to the formatting process. I'm reading all I can because I plan on formatting myself. I see a bunch of stuff about left quotes and right quotes. Do I need to be concerned with this if I have them presenting straight? One site even made me feel bad for using them, but I really had no choice in this matter.
I get so confused, so easily. To quote Peter Griffin, "I'm so old and in the way." LMAO