Re: Smart quotes not working correctly with single quotes

["Andreas Gösele" <agoesele@sju.edu>]

Thanks Juan Manuel!

Your suggestion works for LaTeX, but I need the other formats too. I
tried to convert the LaTeX document with pandoc, tex4h and latex2html to
odt and html but none of them produces the correct output.

So I'm wondering whether there is any way to make org export to
recognize single quotes also outside from double quote. It should be
possible as inner quotes is not the only use of simple quotes.

Thanks again!

Andreas

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> I don't know if this is a bug, but I would say that in principle it's
> the expected result. Single quotes are understood here as inner quotes
> or second-level quotation marks, therefore they are only activated
> nested in text with first level quotes: " ... '...' ... "
>
> lorem "ipsum 'dolor sit' amet"
>
> For LaTeX output, however, the csquotes package is a more powerful
> option to control the correct quotation marks for each language. For
> example:
>
> #+LaTeX_Header: \usepackage[german,english]{babel}
> #+LaTeX_Header: \usepackage[babel=true,autostyle=true,german=quotes]{csquotes}
> #+LaTeX_Header: \MakeOuterQuote{"}
> #+LaTeX_Header: \MakeInnerQuote{´}
>
> #+LaTeX: \selectlanguage{german}\EnableQuotes
> It's a ´test´. "Please".
>
> lorem "ipsum ´dolor´ sit" amet
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel 
>
> Andreas Gösele writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> even using "smart quotes", single quotes are not correctly exported into
>> html, odt or latex.
>>
>> I have as document:
>>
>> | #+LANGUAGE: de
>> | #+OPTIONS: ':t
>> | #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
>> | It's a 'test'. "Please".
>>
>> If I export it to html I get:
>>
>> | It&rsquo;s a &rsquo;test&rsquo;. &bdquo;Please&ldquo;.
>>
>> I should get:
>>
>> | It&rsquo;s a &sbquo;test&lsquo;. &bdquo;Please&ldquo;.
>>
>> If I export to latex I get:
>>
>> | It's a 'test'. "`Please"'.
>>
>> I should get:
>>
>> | It's a \glq{}test\grq{}. "`Please"'.
>>
>> If I export to odt I get:
>>
>> | It’s a ’test’. „Please“.
>>
>> I should get:
>>
>> | It’s a ‚test‘. „Please“.
>>
>> (The odt example outputs use utf8, I hope it gets transmitted.)
>>
>> So in all three cases apostrophes and double quotes are correctly
>> exported, but not single quotes. Similar problem if I use "#+LANGUAGE:
>> en".
>>
>> I have org-mode 9.3 with emacs 27.1.
>>
>> What could I do to get single quotes to be exported correctly?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Andreas
>>