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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in org-export-smart-quotes
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:20:28 -0400
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Jay Dixit <dixit@aya.yale.edu> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've noticed that when I use quotation marks in conjunction with an em dash (—), org-export-smart-quotes gets confused and forgets
> to activate smart quotes for the closing quotation mark.
>
> If my org-mode file contains a sentence like this...
>
> A [[http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/23/1948550614568867.abstract][new study]] published in Psychological and
> Personality Science has found that helping other people---what scientists call being "prosocial"---increases your odds of finding a
> long-term relationship.
>
> ...then it exports to HTML like this:
>
> A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that helping other people—what scientists call
> being “prosocial"—increases your odds of finding a long-term relationship.
>
> Note the non-smart closing quotation mark. Does anyone know a fix for this? 
>

The regexps are probably looking for spaces - try

... people --- what scientists call being "prosocial" --- increases


Nick