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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: Bug: Exporting smart single quotes in Org 8.3 seems broken [8.3.2 (8.3.2-elpa @ /Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20150929/)]
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:40:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737kzssqo.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160916070840.rv5edcpnyzznfont@chitra.no-ip.org> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:38:44 +0530")

Hello,

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> It feels wrong as these are not English words, or phrases, but strings
> with context dependent special meaning.  In my case, these are action
> keys in my organisation denoting specific processes.
>
> I also found this English.SX answer:
>
>   http://english.stackexchange.com/a/3471
>
> It mentions:
>
>   [...] referring to the concept behind the word [...],
>
> as one of the use cases for single quotes.

There are two things to consider.

1. Double quotes in the Org document are not necessarily exported as
   double quotes in the output. It depends on the language used and
   `org-export-smart-quotes-alist'.

2. You can always force any type of quotes with entities.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-01 22:45 Bug: Exporting smart single quotes in Org 8.3 seems broken [8.3.2 (8.3.2-elpa @ /Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20150929/)] Jonathan Oddie
2015-10-02 16:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-02 17:32   ` Jonathan Oddie
2015-10-02 18:53     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-02 19:36       ` Jonathan Oddie
2015-10-02 20:13         ` Rasmus
2015-10-02 21:55           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-02 22:24             ` Rasmus
2015-10-03  7:30               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-12-06 13:55                 ` lipidic man
2015-12-06 15:28                   ` Rasmus
2015-12-06 17:45                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-12-06 18:21                     ` lipidic man
2016-09-15  6:59                 ` Suvayu Ali
2016-09-15 13:29                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-09-16  7:08                     ` Suvayu Ali
2016-09-16 16:40                       ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]

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