From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Leonard Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Single outer smart quotes.
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:10:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fnuulky.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRQoAmsWLRg4CsTRjEBrVSs65guRZideogyNrnSeCHJfOx=DQ@mail.gmail.com> (Leonard Randall's message of "Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:34:57 +0100")
Hello,
Leonard Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com> writes:
> The new smart quotes algorithm does not seem to capture British style
> quoting (single outer quotes, double inner quotes) correctly. It
> treats all single quotes that are not enclosed in double quotes as
> apostrophes. I assume that it was revised to deal with apostrophes
> that occur on the outside of words, and I saw that it was updated
> again just last week to deal with some edge cases.
Correct.
> Do you think that there is an easy way to make it recognise single
> outer quotes without sacrificing the recent gains, or would it be
> better just to treat American style quoting as the standard for source
> files, and just add an en-gb entry to org-export-smart-quotes-alist
> that converts double quotes to single quotes and vice versa?
The latter. You can fix "en" entry in `org-export-smart-quotes-alist'
and add a new "us" entry, if needed.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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2015-09-12 0:34 Single outer smart quotes Leonard Randall
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