From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Smart" quotes
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:17:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d35u8rvk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBB08CA.5060705@kli.org> (Mark E. Shoulson's message of "Mon, 21 May 2012 23:32:26 -0400")
Hello,
"Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org> writes:
> "Smart" quotes can be annoying when they aren't smart enough. But when
> they work you can miss them. I'm attaching a patch that defines a
> custom variable org-smart-quotes (nil by default), which when non-nil
> causes the " and ' characters to display as “smart” quotes, hopefully
> the right ones. They're still ' and " in the underlying text, just
> overlaid with “”.
This is not related to entities, so code shouldn't be in org-entities.el.
Also, quotes are dependent on locale[fn:1]. English/US only quotes look
like a niche to me. Would it be possible to modify the patch and have
this feature handle LANGUAGE keyword, or at least have a support for it?
Regards,
[fn:1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-23 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 3:32 "Smart" quotes Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-23 22:17 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2012-05-24 3:05 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-25 17:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-25 17:51 ` Jambunathan K
2012-05-25 22:51 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-26 6:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-29 1:30 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-29 17:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-30 0:51 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-05-31 1:50 ` (no subject) Mark Shoulson
2012-05-31 13:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-05-31 23:26 ` Smart Quotes Exporting (Was: Re: (no subject)) Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-01 17:11 ` Smart Quotes Exporting Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-01 22:41 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-03 3:16 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-06 2:14 ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-06-07 19:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-11 1:28 ` Mark Shoulson
2012-06-12 13:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-15 16:20 ` Mark Shoulson
2012-06-19 9:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-08-07 23:18 ` Bastien
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