From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Lundin Subject: Minor latex export issue Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:17:56 -0600 Message-ID: <87fxjn9o3v.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMlxD-00016A-KN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMlxB-00014H-Ao for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45284 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMlxB-00013y-4U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:21 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:36446) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMlxA-0005Cs-RJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:20 -0500 Received: from matt-desktop (vu019215.valpo.edu [152.228.168.123]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id F417022F16 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:19 -0500 (EST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I'm have a *minor* issue to report. It occurs when I export an org file with footnotes to LaTeX. Specifically, it has to do with the combination of American style quotation marks and footnotes. According to many American manuals of style, quotation marks are to be placed after a sentence ending period if the quoted passage is at the end of the sentence. E.g. ,---- | Here is "a quote." | | not | | Here is "a quote". `---- When I use American style quotation in conjuction with a footnote, the exporter does not convert the closing quote marks into a two single quotation marks (i.e., LaTeX smart quotes). Thus, the following source snippet: ,---- | This is a footnote "with a quote."[fn:sample] And here is another | footnote "with a quote".[fn:another] | | [fn:sample] Here is the sample footnote. | | [fn:another] Another footnote. `---- Becomes ,---- | This is a footnote ``with a quote."\footnote{Here is the sample | footnote. } And here is another footnote ``with a | quote''.\footnote{Another footnote. } `---- Notice the double quotation mark (rather than two single apostrophes) at the end of the first sentence. Notice also the correct quotation mark format appears in the second sentence, where the period comes after the quotation mark. Obviously, it is simple enough to fix this with a query-replace after the export, but I thought I'd report the issue nonetheless, as it interferes with immediate output to PDF. Thanks, Matt