Bilingual notes

[Don Phillipson]

Problem: an academic text with footnotes
citing in both French and English. French
article titles are between guillemets « like this »
(Alt 174 and 175) and English titles should
be between double quotes "like this."

MS Word (2000) keeps trying to default all to
guillemets (having detected that the main text
is in French, not English.

Advice would be welcome.

 

[FxM]

Hi Don,

In French Word version, you've an checkbox to tick/untick in Options |
corrections automatiques | lors de la frappe " by «». [automatic
correction | when typing ??]

Just a point .. What a mess if ever Word decides to convert again the
signs ! I propose you to type << instead of « and '' instead of " to
be sure that these signs will not be converted again by Word.

Regards

FxM (Paris, France)



Don Phillipson a écrit:

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you set the language of the English quoted text to English, you should
get English-style quotation marks. But if the body of the text is in French,
I think you should use guillemets for all quotes. I can't imagine that a
French-language book would distinguish the punctuation of English titles any
more than an English book would use guillemets for French titles.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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[Don Phillipson]

If you set the language of the English quoted text to English, you should
get English-style quotation marks. But if the body of the text is in French,
I think you should use guillemets for all quotes. I can't imagine that a
French-language book would distinguish the punctuation of English titles any
more than an English book would use guillemets for French titles.

Canadians are nowadays used to "bilingual
publication." My editor agrees with you: <<. I would like to
see the style normalised here. If the work is in French, then standard
French style is used. If the work is in English, then Chicago Manual of
Style. What do you think? This issue should be addressed in the style
guide that we are developing.>>