It’s easiest if you choose from the very beginning. Just go into the programming and toggle a button for your preference. Like most publishers, Eric Flint and the publications written in his name – Ring of Fire Press, the Grantville Gazette and now 1632 & Beyond – prefer straight. But if you go smart instead of straight, that’s okay (as long as you are consistent) because it’s pretty easy to change from one to the other. It’s when you mix smart and straight that it gets problematic.
So please, if you are writing for us, turn on smart quotes and smart apostrophes.
Wait. You didn’t realize I was talking punctutation? ((Shaking my head.)) We don’t care about that other stuff.
Note: I didn’t copy the date, but I’m pretty positive this was adapted from something Eric wrote on Baen’s Bar.
