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Re: [O] Bug: Exporting smart single quotes in Org 8.3 seems broken [8.3.
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Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
Re: [O] 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/)] |
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Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:55:23 +0200 |
Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
> Jonathan Oddie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello Nicolas,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>>>> However, I could customize `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' to export
>>>> outer quotes using single quote marks and inner quotes using double
>>>> quote marks.
>>>>
>>>> Is that about right?
>>>
>>> Correct. However, `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' aims to be
>>> typographically correct for all handled languages, so it is not
>>> customizable.
>>
>> In British English, I believe standard typographical style uses single
>> quotation marks for normal quotations, and double quotation marks for inner
>> quotations.
>>
>> I can obtain this behaviour with Org 8.3 by evaluating the following form in
>> *scratch*:
>>
>> (push
>> '("en-GB"
>> (opening-single-quote :utf-8 "“" :html "“" :latex "``" :texinfo
>> "``")
>> (closing-single-quote :utf-8 "”" :html "”" :latex "''" :texinfo
>> "''")
>> (opening-double-quote :utf-8 "‘" :html "‘" :latex "`" :texinfo
>> "`")
>> (closing-double-quote :utf-8 "’" :html "’" :latex "'" :texinfo
>> "'")
>> (apostrophe :utf-8 "’" :html "’"))
>> org-export-smart-quotes-alist)
>>
>> and then adding #+LANGUAGE: en-GB to my input org-mode file (sample input
>> and output below).
>>
>> Would a patch to this effect be acceptable for a future Org release? (I
>> would also be happy to contribute a documentation patch for the manual).
>
> I think this would be nice. In ox-latex, 'en-GB' is recognized by both
> babel or polyglossia.
I agree.
Also, I think it would be clearer to rename `opening-double-quote' to
`opening-primary-quote' and `opening-single-quote' to
`opening-secondary-quote'. WDYT?
Regards,
- [O] 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, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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/)], Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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/)], Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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/)], Rasmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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/)],
Nicolas Goaziou <=
- Re: [O] 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/)], Rasmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: [O] 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/)], Nicolas Goaziou, 2015/10/08