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From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ox.el: add smart quotes for Greek
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:19:30 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sifoj3$qsb$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kad1y12.fsf@posteo.net>

I believe, the patch is an improvement. It would be nice to have a 
comment clarifying the choice of secondary opening quote mark, but it is 
not required. It seems there is no recommendations or established 
practice for documenting of such decisions. I have not tested the patch 
though.

> -`org-export-smart-quotes-alist' and `org-export-dictionary'.
> +`org-export-smart-quotes-' and `org-export-dictionary'.

It it intentional change? I have not found other variables having the 
same prefix.

On 22/09/2021 03:20, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
>> [...]
>> Possible options:
>> - Add the note directly to the .el file. I am afraid, as inline
>>    comment it could be considered too long.
>> - To a file in the "doc" directory dedicated to such decisions (there
>>    is no such file yet however) with a reference from the .el file.
>> - Commit message. It is acceptable but not apparent for a person who
>>    reads the code that git log may provide detailed explanation of
>> particular choice.
> ...
> Haralambous is a great TeX guru, and a great scholar and theorist of
> Greek typography, but... I would say that in this case his mind is more
> focused on a historical tradition probably abandoned before the digital
> age.

That character could get better support in future. I know, such chance 
is almost improbable, but imagine, a person familiar with the paper of 
Haralambous would consider change of the quote mark in question 
believing that Org developers were not aware of the "right" symbol. A 
comment in the source code may provide a hint that the choice was conscious.

I forgot to mention it in my message from 2020-08-15 that I did not find 
the U+201F character in TeX pre-unicode LG* encodings for Greek.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-22 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-19 16:30 [PATCH] ox.el: add smart quotes for Greek Juan Manuel Macías
2021-09-20 14:54 ` Max Nikulin
2021-09-21 20:20   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-09-22 17:19     ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2021-09-22 19:55       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-09-23 16:10         ` Max Nikulin
2021-09-23 17:17           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-09-25 19:56             ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-09-25 20:54               ` Bastien

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