From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leonard Randall Subject: Re: Single outer smart quotes. Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:12:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877fnuulky.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d044481aff0c3e6051fb903cc Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45687) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbYGC-0008VQ-9b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:13:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbYG9-0007Fq-J2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:13:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:35510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbYG9-0007Fe-Df for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:13:45 -0400 Received: by wicge5 with SMTP id ge5so153901339wic.0 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877fnuulky.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leonard Randall , emacs-orgmode , mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr --f46d044481aff0c3e6051fb903cc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thanks for the help! On 13 September 2015 at 21:10, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Leonard Randall 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 > --f46d044481aff0c3e6051fb903cc Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks for the help!
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On 13 September 2015 at 21:10, Nicolas Goazio= u <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<= br> > 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-qu= otes-alist'
and add a new "us" entry, if needed.


Regards,

--
Nicolas Goaziou

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