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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>,
	org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Smart" quotes
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 23:21:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <818vgg9mjx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk8w6v4q.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Fri, 25 May 2012 19:14:13 +0200")


> I could be interesting, but keep in mind that no matter how "smart" your
> quotes are, they will fail in some situations. So, it will have to be
> optional for export, independently on their in-buffer status.
>
> The OPTIONS keyword may be used, with q:t and q:nil items.

I don't see an entry for this in `org-export-options-alist'.  So I
believe you are soliciting opinion on a fresh addition.

>> (I'm looking forward to HTML and ODT exporters that can do smart
>> quotes; the straight quotes are really the main jarring things about
>> using Org as a lightweight markup and exporting into something
>> fancier)
>
> A function, provided in org-export, could help changing dumb quotes into
> smart quotes in plain text. Then, it would be easier for back-ends to
> provide the feature, if they wanted to.

I can use it, if made available.  I think, It will be help if we force
all exporters to produce utf-8 files.
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-25 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-22  3:32 "Smart" quotes Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-23 22:17 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-24  3:05   ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-25 17:14     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-25 17:51       ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-05-25 22:51       ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-26  6:48         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-29  1:30           ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-29 17:57             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-30  0:51               ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-31  1:50                 ` (no subject) Mark Shoulson
2012-05-31 13:38                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-31 23:26                     ` Smart Quotes Exporting (Was: Re: (no subject)) Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-01 17:11                       ` Smart Quotes Exporting Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-01 22:41                         ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-03  3:16                         ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-06  2:14                         ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-07 19:21                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-11  1:28                             ` Mark Shoulson
2012-06-12 13:21                               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-15 16:20                                 ` Mark Shoulson
2012-06-19  9:26                                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-08-07 23:18                                     ` Bastien

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