Hello Nick. First, thank you so much for your detailed answer.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:16 PM Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This example has the additional problem of the apostrophe in "let's", which
> basically causes more mayhem. Let's simplify the example a bit by
> considering
>
>     She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let us go together'"
>
> which when export to TeX becomes:
>
>     She said to me: ``Rick screamed, `let us go together'''
>
> and TeX misinterprets the three closing single quotes as (closing
> double quote, closing single quote) instead of (closing single quote,
> closing double quote).
>
>
I was beginning to suspect that, I didn't see it at first, but after
writing and explaining the problem, it dawned on me that it could be LaTeX
that cannot correctly parse the three consecutive single quotes.


> >
> > Internal
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm not sure whether smart quotes can be made smarter, perhaps by
> detecting the problem and inserting the small space \, to resolve the
> ambiguity; but the manual space solution should have worked: what
> version of org are you using?
>
> FWIW, mine is latest master: Org mode version 9.1.2
> (release_9.1.2-84-geeaf9a @ /home/nick/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp/)
>

I am using Org mode version 8.2.10, I will update my version and try again.


Martin