http://photomatt.net/tools/texturize makes it really easy. He's also responsible for the WordPress blogging software (I know, off topic...) which has that function embedded. Quotation marks and apostrophes, if copied out of Word, can give you all kinds of messy encoding errors... best to either use plain text or properly encoded entities. (Entity bonanza here tonight, isn't it??)
Using the right entity codes also means you get left and right quotation marks, which, all typographical semantics aside, simply look more professional. Josh On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:00 +0100, designer wrote: > Hi All, > > How much do I need to bother about quotation marks etc being represented as > their 'proper' equivalent, eg ' as ', and so on? > > I am working on an extract from a writer's work and as I've cut and pasted a > lot of it, I've ended up with the horrific prospect of painstakingly going > through and changing all the quotes, apostrophes, dashes etc etc. (the > validator > shouts at the moment!) > > ?? > > Any help, utilities etc would be <strong>most</strong> welcome! > > :-) > > Thanks, > > Bob McClelland, > Cornwall (U.K.) > www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
