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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Smart" quotes
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:17:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d35u8rvk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBB08CA.5060705@kli.org> (Mark E. Shoulson's message of "Mon, 21 May 2012 23:32:26 -0400")

Hello,


"Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org> writes:

> "Smart" quotes can be annoying when they aren't smart enough. But when
> they work you can miss them. I'm attaching a patch that defines a
> custom variable org-smart-quotes (nil by default), which when non-nil
> causes the " and ' characters to display as “smart” quotes, hopefully
> the right ones. They're still ' and " in the underlying text, just
> overlaid with “”.

This is not related to entities, so code shouldn't be in org-entities.el.

Also, quotes are dependent on locale[fn:1]. English/US only quotes look
like a niche to me. Would it be possible to modify the patch and have
this feature handle LANGUAGE keyword, or at least have a support for it?


Regards,

[fn:1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 22:20 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 [this message]
2012-05-24  3:05   ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-25 17:14     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-25 17:51       ` Jambunathan K
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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