From: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dumbquotes in exported source listings
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 13:13:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v0ji04p.fsf@benfinney.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BANLkTi=p7J2q15feBEEG6Md12sgHDTDRxw@mail.gmail.com
Avdi Grimm <groups@inbox.avdi.org> writes:
> One issue: my beta reviewers have noted that when copy-and-pasting
> source code listings that contain single-quoted strings, they are
> getting "smart quotes"--i.e. the first quote is a backquote, the
> second quote is a single quote. This breaks the pasted code.
Those aren't even “smart quotes” (the term usually applied to the quote
characters from Microsoft's standards-violating character set). Those
are what might be called “TeX quotes” (though the convention pre-dates
even TeX), since TeX uses ‘`’ for an opening single quote and ‘``’ for
an opening double quote.
Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the
correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text file,
but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well with Unicode.
--
\ “Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the |
`\ strict truth.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ |
_o__) |
Ben Finney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-01 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-30 23:39 Dumbquotes in exported source listings Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01 3:13 ` Ben Finney [this message]
2011-05-01 16:41 ` Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01 19:08 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 20:26 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-05-01 21:31 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 21:40 ` Ben Finney
2011-05-01 21:27 ` Ben Finney
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2011-04-27 20:57 Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
[not found] ` <groups@inbox.avdi.org>
2011-04-27 21:41 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 21:47 ` Avdi Grimm
2011-04-27 22:23 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-28 7:55 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-28 11:36 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 19:04 ` Dumbquotes in exported source listings Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 22:21 ` Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
2011-04-28 11:06 ` Eric S Fraga
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