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awanderingbard ([personal profile] awanderingbard) wrote2008-03-11 01:30 pm
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Weird Problem

I'm not seeing quotation marks or apostrophes on some people's entries for some reason. It makes it very hard to read stories. I'm guessing it's maybe only posts composed in Word or maybe with a program like Semagic. It doesn't seem to be on my own posts, I can read them fine. The quotations and apostrophes look like periods or dashes. Sort of like .Jack,. The Doctor.s voice said. It's hard to read. Any suggestions on what the problem might be and/or how to fix it?

ETA: It looks like this if that helps anyone.

Excerpt is from [livejournal.com profile] donutsweeper's journal, a story that can be found here.

[identity profile] angiepen.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
No clue, everything looks fine to me. :/ Usually when someone composes in Word and lets it be all "helpful" with the curly-quotes and such, you end up with question marks rather than periods. That's definitely strange. [ponder]

Angie

[identity profile] joonscribble.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Strange. Do you know if it's on your end or on the end of the people whose LJ you're reading?

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-12 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
HAve you tried changing the journal style?

I have no idea if it'll help or not (I doubt it) but try adding ?style=mine after the .html in the web addy