From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quotes for LaTeX export
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:05:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9e6v8ib.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eh3iftc7.fsf@gmx.us
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Hi Laurens,
>
> Laurens Van Houtven <_@lvh.io> writes:
>
>> I'm writing a book using org-mode. On export, org-mode turns double quotes
>> like "hello" into ``hello''. Some modern LaTeXes no longer support that
>> form, instead preferring semantic markup. (The reasoning being that the
>> markup implies a particular quote style, whereas quotation style is
>> language-dependent.)
>
> This is not true. Quotes depend on your LANGUAGE-cookie. See
> org-export-smart-quotes-alist.
>
>
>> As a result, I get
>>
>> The preferred way to do that these days is, in the preamble:
>>
>> \usepackage{csquotes}
>>
>> ... and then later:
>>
>> \enquote{something}
>
> But this would require us to load an extra package. Org is quite
> capable of handling this on the lisp side (and Org ≠ LaTeX). Clearly,
> we could have a org-export-user-smart-quote-alist taking priority over
> the predefined one.
>
>> I think it would make sense to support this for org, and perhaps eventually
>> make it default behavior. FWIW: I had no idea about this until it bit me
>> when my LaTeX document suddenly had bogus quotes in it.
>
> This has never happened to me, despite extensive usage of LaTeX for
> almost ten years.
>
>> If there is no interest to add this to org, how do I hack org so that this
>> is what it does?
>
> The cleanest way would be a filter, probably
> org-export-filter-quote-block-functions and filter-plain-text.
>
> The easiest way would be a macro or simply redefining
> org-export-smart-quotes-alist to suit your needs.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
IIRC, there was support for csquotes in the old exporter[fn:1] but I guess
it went away when the new exporter came along.
Nick
Footnotes:
[fn:1] e.g. see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/21588
and the following commit which applies to the *OLD* latex exporter:
,----
| commit 2b9afb9e63d2fd60a3bb09e33c9d4abb01586339
| Author: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
| Date: Mon Jul 11 15:10:00 2011 +0200
|
| org-latex.el: New defcustom `org-export-latex-quotes' to control quotes.
|
| * org-latex.el (org-export-latex-quotes): New defcustom.
| (org-export-latex-quotation-marks): Use it.
|
| This allows users to define what quotes they want to use as a
| replacement of english double-quotes while exporting to LaTeX.
|
| In particular, if you use the csquote package, you can configure
| Org to output something like \endquote{some quoted text} instead
| of "some quoted text".
|
| Thanks to Frederik for bringing this issue up, and to Thomas S.
| Dye, Nick Dokos and Stefan Nobis for elaborating this solution.
`----
although I cannot find the thread of that discussion on gmane.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-04 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-04 20:44 Quotes for LaTeX export Laurens Van Houtven
2014-02-04 21:42 ` Rasmus
2014-02-04 22:05 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-02-05 7:46 ` Bastien
2014-02-05 11:30 ` Laurens Van Houtven
2014-02-05 13:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-02-05 14:05 ` Laurens Van Houtven
2014-02-05 14:31 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-02-05 11:30 ` Laurens Van Houtven
2014-02-05 12:12 ` Rasmus
2014-02-05 13:31 ` Laurens Van Houtven
2014-02-05 13:44 ` Rasmus
2014-02-05 14:06 ` Laurens Van Houtven
[not found] ` <871tzh1qwf.fsf@strey.biz>
2014-02-06 11:31 ` Michael Strey
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