--- old/text.texi 2020-08-19 15:45:20.000000000 +0200 +++ new/text.texi 2020-08-20 19:40:15.062523900 +0200 @@ -421,13 +421,12 @@ @cindex curved quotes @cindex guillemets @findex electric-quote-mode -@c The funny quoting below is to make the printed version look -@c correct. FIXME. + One common way to quote is the typewriter convention, which quotes -using straight apostrophes @t{'like this'} or double-quotes @t{"like +using straight apostrophes @kbd{'like this'} or double-quotes @kbd{"like this"}. Another common way is the curved quote convention, which uses -left and right single or double quotation marks `@t{like this}' or -``@t{like this}''@footnote{ +left and right single or double quotation marks @t{‘like this’} or +@t{“like this”}@footnote{ The curved single quote characters are U+2018 @sc{left single quotation mark} and U+2019 @sc{right single quotation mark}; the curved double quotes are U+201C @sc{left double quotation mark} and U+201D @sc{right double @@ -445,7 +444,7 @@ @code{electric-quote-chars}, a list of four characters, where the items correspond to the left single quote, the right single quote, the left double quote and the right double quote, respectively, whose -default value is @code{'(?@r{`} ?@r{'} ?@r{``} ?@r{''})}. +default value is @w{@code{'(@w{?}‘ @w{?}’ @w{?}“ @w{?}”)}}. @vindex electric-quote-paragraph @vindex electric-quote-comment @@ -461,7 +460,7 @@ @vindex electric-quote-replace-double You can also set the option @code{electric-quote-replace-double} to -a non-@code{nil} value. Then, typing @t{"} insert an appropriate +a non-@code{nil} value. Then, typing @kbd{"} insert an appropriate curved double quote depending on context: @t{“} at the beginning of the buffer or after a line break, whitespace, opening parenthesis, or quote character, and @t{”} otherwise. @@ -473,7 +472,7 @@ type @kbd{C-q `} or @kbd{C-q '} instead of @kbd{`} or @kbd{'}. To insert a curved quote even when Electric Quote is disabled or inactive, you can type @kbd{C-x 8 [} for @t{‘}, @kbd{C-x 8 ]} for -@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for ``, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for ''. +@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for @t{“}, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for @t{”}. @xref{Inserting Text}. Note that the value of @code{electric-quote-chars} does not affect these keybindings, they are not keybindings of @code{electric-quote-mode} but bound in