Re: [O] Bug: Exporting smart single quotes in Org 8.3 seems broken [8.3.2 (8.3.2-elpa @ /Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20150929/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Jonathan Oddie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello Nicolas,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>>>> However, I could customize `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' to export
>>>> outer quotes using single quote marks and inner quotes using double
>>>> quote marks.
>>>> 
>>>> Is that about right?
>>> 
>>> Correct. However, `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' aims to be
>>> typographically correct for all handled languages, so it is not
>>> customizable.
>>
>> In British English, I believe standard typographical style uses single 
>> quotation marks for normal quotations, and double quotation marks for inner 
>> quotations.
>>
>> I can obtain this behaviour with Org 8.3 by evaluating the following form in 
>> *scratch*:
>>
>>     (push
>>      '("en-GB"
>>        (opening-single-quote :utf-8 "“" :html "&ldquo;" :latex "``" :texinfo 
>> "``")
>>        (closing-single-quote :utf-8 "”" :html "&rdquo;" :latex "''" :texinfo 
>> "''")
>>        (opening-double-quote :utf-8 "‘" :html "&lsquo;" :latex "`" :texinfo 
>> "`")
>>        (closing-double-quote :utf-8 "’" :html "&rsquo;" :latex "'" :texinfo 
>> "'")
>>        (apostrophe :utf-8 "’" :html "&rsquo;"))
>>      org-export-smart-quotes-alist)
>>
>> and then adding #+LANGUAGE: en-GB to my input org-mode file (sample input 
>> and output below).
>>
>> Would a patch to this effect be acceptable for a future Org release?  (I 
>> would also be happy to contribute a documentation patch for the manual).
>
> I think this would be nice.  In ox-latex, 'en-GB' is recognized by both
> babel or polyglossia.

I agree.

Also, I think it would be clearer to rename `opening-double-quote' to
`opening-primary-quote' and `opening-single-quote' to
`opening-secondary-quote'. WDYT?

Regards,