I read a similar comment on a surveyor's message board, back in the day. There was a response from someone claiming to be a reviewer: When I see an obvious error, like a missing or rotated north arrow, or similar, I take that as a reason to go over the entire document with a fine tooth comb.
If the municipality is charging for their review by the hour, then it's a good idea to play nice.
But I agree; if you try to provide a submittal that is perfect and they tell you that they don't like your quotation mark and you need to rotate it. They can go pound sand...
Ask him to give you a typed example of what he wants. Maybe then the bells will go off in his head.
He will do it in MS Word, where it works. Not in your software.
I emailed this to them:
Hello xxxxxxxxx, hope all is well with you. I would like to thank you for the compliment to the completeness of my efforts to accomplish my clients goal in a most expeditious manner. I can think of no better compliment to my work than when I receive comments such as this:
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In my vast experience, doing Land Surveying and Civil Design work in several states and submitting plats and design plans to many city planning departments, comments like this show me that my work conforms to the regulations by such a degree that you really had to look hard for something to comment about.
That being said, I know of no way to “adjust” the quotation mark, short of using a different font altogether, which is one of our company standard fonts and the same font that we have used for submittals to multiple cities and even prior submittals to the City of XXXXXXXX without comment.
How would you like me to address this comment.
Thank you
The response:
Hi Richard,
If you can’t adjust the quotation, that’s fine. A detail like that will not hold you up from moving forward, it was just something I noticed as I was reviewing your plat and figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask since there were other comments.
Let me know if you have any questions or need anything else,
By the way those other comments were all graphic things like moving paragraphs around in the dedication, nothing technical.
Try technobold font, it make the marks straight, some others do also. I might start using it.
You do know the first quotation mark used in a quote that the fat part is down and similarly the ending one is up.
Dumb question. Can you just get rid of quotation marks?
If you can't find a font that makes the quotation marks vertical just use two apostrophes.
they want the title of the plat in the dedication statement, so it's quoted, I suppose it could be underlined like any title
I would share all of your anger if this was actually preventing a plat from being approved, but is it? I would rather the reviewer point out minor errors than quietly let them by
You think that the quotation mark issue is a "minor error"?
That’s a CAD issue. Don’t have a fix for it so I live with it.
It's very simple. There are people referred to as "Karens".
I hope I don't encounter them in my daily life.
I have to ask, why is "replat" in quotes?
@dave-lindell I tried that... same problem though
Use the command MIRRTEXT and set the value from 0 to 1. Then mirror the text left-right, then again up-down. Steal the beginning quotation mark from the twice mirrored text and manually move it over your other text into position. Can be done, but what a PITA!
Replat is in the title of the plat and some of the cities here require the title of the plat to be in the dedication statement, sometimes more than once. I'm sure you know that proper grammar is to quote or underline a title. I wonder what they'd say if I were to underline the title.
@richard-germiller oh I see. I was worried you were putting the actual title of the plat in quotation marks. Why do people do that?
But that brings up an interesting point. Titles are either put in quotation marks or in italics depending on what type of work the title is referring to. Underlining a title was taught in secondary schools in the past because when using a typewriter italics were not an option. Since no one uses typewriters anymore, underlining isn't a thing anymore.
The MLA rule is that a self contained work gets italics, and a part of the whole gets quotes. For example a magazine name gets italics, but an article from the same magazine gets quotes.
The title of a map gets italics and I think a plat is a self contained work, so maybe use italics?
Long ago I started making comments requirung action in bold italics, and suggestions in regular font. I also use the word 'suggest' to make it clear it was optional.
Many of the 'optional' items were simply to avoid having an embarrassing document in the recird. Most folks appreciate it...