How do I get some control over punctuation?
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Hello. I need WP to not take liberties (sounds dramatic, but not my intention) with my content. The following sentence will demonstrate:
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From the January 29 Democracy Now show titled “”A Silent Coup”: Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU,” the following.
————-Here, I see neutral-looking quotation marks, a look I prefer ‘if’ I can’t control what those marks enclose. In my blog, the double enclosing marks before the word ‘A’ in “A Silent Coup,” are opposing. I’m quoting ‘exactly’ from the source. The phrase “A Silent Coup” is enclosed within a longer title that is also enclosed with quotation marks. Which means I don’t want the first two sets of quotation marks to be ‘begin’ and ‘end’. They are both supposed to be begins. My solution, which I’m forced to employ, is to use single marks around the interior phrase ‘A Silent Coup’. Again, That’s not what the original source shows. And yes, for me, that’s important. That’s how professionals write and report.
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I have no technical trick to help you, and I’m not sure if this will fix your problem, but to make two opening marks in a row have you tried just typing an unnecessary letter between opening and closing marks and then deleting the bits you don’t want?
Annoying I know, but at least you may be able to make it appear the way you want.
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I realise that, but if you open, type Z, close, open, type the title, delete the Z and the close (and at the other end the same but delete the superfluous letter and open) you are left with open open and close close.
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Okay. I’ll play around with it. I sort of hate doing that. I don’t have time for farting around. But if I can learn a trick here, then maybe it will be worth it. Thanks for idea. Later…
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Switch to the text editor and type in the entity codes for open double and close double quotes:
Open double quotes “ & ldquo ;
Close double quotes ” & rdquo ;(don’t put spaces into the code as I did so you can read it.)
More entity codes here: http://www.danshort.com/HTMLentities/ -
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Another thing I’ve noticed is that one can simply highlight the html entity you want, copy it, then paste it into the visual editor. There are lots of other sites with entity codes, and some of them won’t work this way. But so far, dan short’s site will allow this.
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Very good. I now have an assortment of help sites like that bookmarked right next to my wordpress.com bookmark. It’s small potatoes. But it’s not. Thanks.
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