Bug: Smart left single quote broken

Bug: Smart left single quote broken

[T.F. Torrey]

Hello all,

The smart quote code has gotten a little borked, at least in HTML.

This:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
He said, "You should believe me, 'cause it's 'true'."
#+END_EXAMPLE

Exports to this:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
<p>
He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
&rsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
</p>
#+END_EXAMPLE

The quote before "true" should be a left single quote, and it used to be,
like this:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
<p>
He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
&lsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
</p>
#+END_EXAMPLE

I looked at the code, but it has become more convoluted than I can
figure out in the time allotted.  Hopefully the error is obvious to
someone more familiar with it.

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Best,
Terry
-- 
T.F. Torrey

Re: Bug: Smart left single quote broken

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

"T.F. Torrey" <tftorrey@tftorrey.com> writes:

> The smart quote code has gotten a little borked, at least in HTML.
>
> This:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> He said, "You should believe me, 'cause it's 'true'."
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Exports to this:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> <p>
> He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
> &rsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
> </p>
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> The quote before "true" should be a left single quote, and it used to
> be,

There is indeed a bug, thank you. I'm going to fix it.

> like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> <p>
> He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
> &lsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
> </p>
> #+END_EXAMPLE

I don't think we ever achieved this result. At best, we can obtain:

  He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &lsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
  &lsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;

I doubt it is possible to tell that 'cause begins with an apostrophe and
not an opening single quote without grammatical analysis.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Bug: Smart left single quote broken

[T.F. Torrey]

> I doubt it is possible to tell that 'cause begins with an apostrophe and 
> not an opening single quote without grammatical analysis. 
 
Indeed. I pointed it out because it was unexpectedly doing the right thing.

Thank you.

T.

Re: Bug: Smart left single quote broken

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

"T.F. Torrey" <tftorrey@tftorrey.com> writes:
>
> The smart quote code has gotten a little borked, at least in HTML.
>
> This:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> He said, "You should believe me, 'cause it's 'true'."
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Exports to this:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> <p>
> He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
> &rsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
> </p>
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> The quote before "true" should be a left single quote, and it used to be,
> like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> <p>
> He said, &ldquo;You should believe me, &rsquo;cause it&rsquo;s
> &lsquo;true&rsquo;.&rdquo;
> </p>
> #+END_EXAMPLE

Fixed. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou