On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:41 PM Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar> wrote:

> Hello Nick. First, thank you so much for your detailed answer.
>
> I'm not sure whether smart quotes can be made smarter, perhaps by
>> detecting the problem and inserting the small space \, to resolve the
>> ambiguity; but the manual space solution should have worked: what
>> version of org are you using?
>>
>> FWIW, mine is latest master: Org mode version 9.1.2
>> (release_9.1.2-84-geeaf9a @ /home/nick/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp/)
>>
>
> I am using Org mode version 8.2.10, I will update my version and try again.
>
>
I updated Org-mode to the last version (9.1.2) from the orgmode.org ELPA
sources and the problem went away.

Separating the nested quotes with a space does the trick:

She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let's go together' "

Now the closing quote gets "smarted" in the exported PDF file.

Thank you very much


Martin