Re: Nested smart quotes

[Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar>]

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Colin:

The beauty of smart quotes is that I don't have to see the ugly LaTeX
formatting in my org file, but the final document has the corresponding
opening and closing quote characters. While I do sprinkle some LaTeX here
and there in my org files, I think that would be going a little too far for
my taste.

Thanks anyway!

Martin


On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:22 PM Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> wrote:

> >>>>> Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar> writes:
>
>
>     > #+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
>
> What about
>
> She said to me: \lq\lq Rick screamed, \lq let's go together\rq\nbsp{}\rq\rq
>
>
> --
> Colin Baxter
> m43cap@yandex.com
>

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