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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Quotes not being converted correctly for LaTeX export
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:25:25 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw05n5de.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130308174649.GJ13199@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Fri, 8 Mar 2013 18:46:49 +0100")

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Jambunathan and others,
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:03:39PM +0530, Jambunathan K wrote:
>> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > It seems double and single quotes are not being exported properly for
>> > LaTeX export.  In a minimal Org instance, the following
>> >
>> >   * Test
>> >   "Orange box"
>> >   'Orange box'
>> >
>> > is exported as
>> >
>> >   \section[Testing]{Testing}
>> >   \label{sec-1}
>> >   "Orange box"
>> >   'Orange box'
>> >
>> > whereas I would expect the following
>> >
>> >   \section[Testing]{Testing}
>> >   \label{sec-1}
>> >   ``Orange box''
>> >   `Orange box'
>> 
>> #+OPTIONS: ':t
>> 
>> ,----[ C-h v org-export-with-smart-quotes RET ]
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, but I still think this is a bug for LaTeX
> export.  Quoting as ".." produces incorrect output in LaTeX, the correct
> forms are `..' or ``..''.  This is even more important if you are
> writing in a language that uses umlauts, and the situation can get
> confusing as the character " is used to specify umlauts.
>
> This is worth a thought since the old exporter did it right without any
> special settings.

I get GRAVE ACCENT and APOSTROPHE.  You are requesting the exact same
chars.  I am copy pasting from my latex buffer here.  

``Orange box''
`Orange box'

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 17:27 Quotes not being converted correctly for LaTeX export Suvayu Ali
2013-03-08 17:33 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-08 17:46   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-03-08 17:55     ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-03-08 18:02       ` Suvayu Ali
2013-03-08 18:14         ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-08 18:27           ` Bastien
2013-03-08 18:33             ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-08 18:51               ` Bastien
2013-03-08 19:07                 ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-08 21:28             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-08 22:21               ` Suvayu Ali
2013-03-08 22:45                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-09  9:39                   ` Bastien
2013-04-16  9:45                     ` Bastien
2013-03-09  9:40               ` Bastien
2013-03-09 15:03                 ` Nicolas Goaziou

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