Nicolas,

Thank you for your response. I now see that I had misunderstood the
documentation.

Also, it occurs to me that one can make use of single quotation marks as
primary quotes when mentioning a word without using it. Moreover, when
italics and double quotation marks are also present, the use of single
quotations as primary is necessary. For example:

'GNU' is an acronym for the phrase "GNU's Not Unix!" but GNU is an
> operating system and *not *an acronym.


Is it feasible to add an option to treat single quotation marks as primary
pairs on export?

Thanks,
Coleman Gariety

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:46 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Coleman Gariety <garietyc@reed.edu> writes:
>
> > According to documentation (org-export-with-smart-quotes) should treat
> > "pairs of single quotes as secondary quotes." This text:
>
> Only within primary quotes! If there are no primary quotes around, you
> don't need a second level of quotation, and single quotes are not
> special.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>