From: Leonard Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com>
To: Leonard Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com>,
emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr
Subject: Re: Single outer smart quotes.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:12:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMRQoAnA3M6zEvJdWJoVMZyaTAOrJqpeAvY1sRpZzz_NYygA-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fnuulky.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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Thanks for the help!
On 13 September 2015 at 21:10, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Leonard Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The new smart quotes algorithm does not seem to capture British style
> > quoting (single outer quotes, double inner quotes) correctly. It
> > treats all single quotes that are not enclosed in double quotes as
> > apostrophes. I assume that it was revised to deal with apostrophes
> > that occur on the outside of words, and I saw that it was updated
> > again just last week to deal with some edge cases.
>
> Correct.
>
> > Do you think that there is an easy way to make it recognise single
> > outer quotes without sacrificing the recent gains, or would it be
> > better just to treat American style quoting as the standard for source
> > files, and just add an en-gb entry to org-export-smart-quotes-alist
> > that converts double quotes to single quotes and vice versa?
>
> The latter. You can fix "en" entry in `org-export-smart-quotes-alist'
> and add a new "us" entry, if needed.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
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2015-09-12 0:34 Single outer smart quotes Leonard Randall
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