Any way to suppress citation quotes

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Any way to suppress citation quotes

I mainly use technical reference ebooks (system administration, development, etc.) and I'm having a frustrating time with ibooks, which I want to solve.

Basically, if I copy text from an epub to paste into the terminal, say

sudo touch /etc/logstash/conf.d/shipper.conf

What I get on the clipboard is:

“sudo touch /etc/logstash/conf.d/shipper.conf”

Excerpt From: James Turnbull. “The Logstash Book.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=5BEB300D32827CC2B C62171982E25872

Not as useful as I'd like. Actually, it''s terrible.

Is there a way to suppress it?

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iBooks.app

Posted on Mar 24, 2014 1:46 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 3, 2016 3:02 PM in response to Peter Hanley

Anyone figure out how to complain about this? It is honestly terrible, and really unacceptable that you can't disable it.

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Peter Hanley Author

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Mar 26, 2014 5:42 AM in response to Peter Hanley

I ended up using regex as a workaround (replace using the $1 capture group). It's an annoyance for sure, and it makes me question bothering with epub for technical books.

“([a-z[:alnum:][:space:][:punct:]][^“”]*)”\n\n.*

I'll have to figure out how to submit feedback on this issue.

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Peter Hanley Author

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Mar 26, 2014 5:45 AM in response to Peter Hanley

I'd like to add that the entire citation issue is made more anoying in this case given that the epub I was using isn't sold through the iTunes store, so the link that iBooks adds to every clipboard item doesn't even work.

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