Text item Issues

[Virginia Cohen]

I created a text item containing a short narrative. When I make the book, the story contains some small boxes near some of the names. I looked at the original text item and it seems to be related to double quote marks. If I change the double quotes to single quotes, the boxes are gone. So I can’t use double quote marks in a text item?

 

Also, I underlined some places using the text editor. The underlining looks correct, but when I make the book the underlining skips the comma. Are these Calibre issues?

 

Virginia

 

Examples

 

In the editor:

 

In the book:

[John Cardinal]

Virginia,

 

Regarding the comma/underline, I believe that is a font difference. The underline is under the comma, but the comma dsescends lower in the calibre screenshot and obscures the line.

 

Regarding the quotes, exactly how did you create them?

1. Did you key them in the TextBox?
2. Did you copy/paste them in the TextBox?
3. Did you key them in the HTML Editor?
4. Did you copy/paste them in the HTML Editor?

 

 

John Cardinal

 

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[Virginia Cohen]

At first, I copied into the text box. After I saw the boxes in the book, I went back and typed the entry into the HTML editor. The boxes still appeared. As a test, I changed to single quotes, and that worked, but double quotes would be the correct usage.

 

Virginia

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[John Cordes]

 This comment may be completely off the mark, but I was wondering if the question of Windows "smart quotes" versus "straight quotes" could be coming into play here?

John Cordes

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[John Cardinal]

Virginia,

 

1. When you typed the quotes, how did you type them? I presume you were typing “curly” quotes, i.e., “”, and not straight quotes, ".
2. Did you type them the same way when typing into the User Item textbox as you did when typing into the HTML Editor?

 

I am trying to understand exactly what you did, so I can repeat it.

 

John Cardinal

 

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From: gp...@googlegroups.com <gp...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Virginia Cohen
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2023 9:46 PM
To: gp...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [GP] Text item Issues

 

At first, I copied into the text box. After I saw the boxes in the book, I went back and typed the entry into the HTML editor. The boxes still appeared. As a test, I changed to single quotes, and that worked, but double quotes would be the correct usage.

 

Virginia

 

[Virginia Cohen]

I copied some text from a Memo in TMG and pasted it into a text box in GP. The double quotes were “curly” quotes. When I made the book, the boxes appeared. I then went into the HTML editor in GP and typed over the double quotes (making them straight quotes), saved, and made the book. The boxes were still there. I know I did a Save, because I retried overtyping and making the book several times. I always save before making a book, whether I need to or not. I learned the hard way.

 

I just went through this scenario again and the double quotes show up correctly, so I don’t know what happened earlier.

 

Virginia

 

From: gp...@googlegroups.com <gp...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of John Cardinal
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2023 10:21 AM
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Subject: RE: [GP] Text item Issues

 

Virginia,

 

1. When you typed the quotes, how did you type them? I presume you were typing “curly” quotes, i.e., “”, and not straight quotes, ".
2. Did you type them the same way when typing into the User Item textbox as you did when typing into the HTML Editor?

 

I am trying to understand exactly what you did, so I can repeat it.

 

John Cardinal

 

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From: gp...@googlegroups.com <gp...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Virginia Cohen
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2023 9:46 PM
To: gp...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [GP] Text item Issues

 

At first, I copied into the text box. After I saw the boxes in the book, I went back and typed the entry into the HTML editor. The boxes still appeared. As a test, I changed to single quotes, and that worked, but double quotes would be the correct usage.

 

Virginia

 

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