Re: Nested smart quotes

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>]

What about using org-entities for these quotes?

\ldquo{}Hello \lsquo{}World\rsquo{}!\rdquo{}

This is Org mode syntax, not LaTeX.

Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar> writes:

> Hello!
>
> My name is Martin and I use org-mode every day. This is my first message to
> the mailing list, and I wanted to ask if somebody could help me with a
> problem I encountered when exporting a document with nested smart quotes.
>
> I have submitted the same question to the emacs Stack Exchange, and someone
> suggested there to send a message to this list. I assume many people here
> reads their email inside emacs, and since this email has embedded images, you
> might see it better formatted in SO.
>
> I have found that the smart-quotes option of org-mode does not export
> properly the quotes when they are nested (single quotes inside double
> quotes), but only when they coincide at the start or the end of the quote.
>
> Maybe the problem will be clearer with an example:
>
> #+TITLE: Smart quotes example
> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil ':t
> #+LANGUAGE: en
> #+LATEX_CLASS: book
> She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let's go together'" 
>
> This gets exported to TeX as:
>
> She said to me: ``Rick screamed, `let's go together'''
>
> Which gets rendered as PDF as:
>
> The order of the closing quotes is wrong
>
> The order of the closing quotes gets reversed, it first closes the outside
> double quotes and then the nested single quote.
>
> I have tried leaving a space between them, but that is arguably worse
>
> Org:
>
> She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let's go together' " 
>
> TeX:
>
> She said to me: ``Rick screamed, `let's go together' "
>
> PDF:
>
> Internal quotes are ok, closing double quote is wrong
>
> In this case, the internal single quotes are rendered correctly, but the
> closing quote is not converted into its "smart" version.
>
> If the nested quotes are in such a way that there are other characters
> between the quotes, that is they are not together at the start or the end of
> the quote, they get rendered correctly.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Martin
>
>

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