Re: [PATCH] ox.el: add smart quotes for Greek

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Maxim,

Max Nikulin writes:

> Juan Manuel, I feel some misunderstanding. I am not asking for more
> arguments in support of current variant of patch. CLDR entry, EU 
> recommendations, the mail from Protesilaos, absence of named HTML
> entity, complications with pdfTeX are more than enough.

I completely agree with what you say, but I think I have explained wrong
in my previous mail. I said about consulting YH because his article is
something old (90s), and his current opinion on "the state of the
question" could help me compose my little explanatory note. And in any
case, I think everyone here agrees that the character that he proposed
in his paper is unfeasible in Org, for all the reasons you have
summarized. On the other hand, the orthographic norms are not sacred
norms; rather, they are determined by use and customs. For example, here
in Spain the manuals and treatises tend to disagree on certain issues.
In my opinion, many times it is better to talk about trends more than
norms[1], and trends that more or less end imposing, almost by mere
natural selection (another matter is that sometimes bad habits are also
imposed, for using inappropriate software, but this is not the case
where we are).

[1] For example, in Spanish of Spain, the quotation marks are «“ ”»,
But in Mexican Spanish they use “‘’” as in English. In fact the
csquotes LaTeX package includes both styles.

Best regards,

Juan Manuel