Re: [feature request] Quotation marks in LaTeX export

["Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>]

Hi Carsten

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> can you send me a path, preferably with an option to turn this on and
> off?

For now, I only have this dummy solution in my .emacs:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(eval-after-load "org-latex"
'(defun org-export-latex-quotation-marks ()
  "Export quotation marks depending on language conventions."
  (let* ((lang (plist-get org-export-latex-options-plist :language))
	 (quote-rpl (if (equal lang "fr")
			'(("\\(\\s-\\)\"" "«~")
			  ("\\(\\S-\\)\"" "~»")
			  ("\\(\\s-\\)'" "`"))
		      '(("\\(\\s-\\|[[(]\\)\"" "\\enquote\{")
			("\\(\\S-\\)\"" "\}")
			("\\(\\s-\\|(\\)'" "`")))))
    (mapc (lambda(l) (goto-char (point-min))
	    (while (re-search-forward (car l) nil t)
	      (let ((rpl (concat (match-string 1)
				 (org-export-latex-protect-string
				  (copy-sequence (cadr l))))))
		(org-if-unprotected-1
		 (replace-match rpl t t))))) quote-rpl)))
)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It's a static setup, just an altered clone of the code in org-latex.el.
I have not the skills to make a switch out of this. One has to add the
header \usepackage[babel]{csquotes}. So, an option has to make sure that
csquotes as well as babel is loaded with the correct language settings:
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel} in my case. If connected to babel,
csquotes will also take care to pick the correct quotation marks if the
language is switched in the midst of the document.

Greetings

Sven