Re: Smart quotes not working correctly with single quotes

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Andreas,

A quick fix (for LaTeX, odt and HTML), if you want to use second-level
quotes as first-level quotes in parts of your document, could be to
define a filter. You must put these quotes as ´ ... ´ (for example):

#+LANGUAGE: de
#+OPTIONS: ':t

#+BIND: org-export-filter-final-output-functions (single-quote-filter)
    #+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports results :results none
      (defun single-quote-filter (text backend info)
        (cond ((or (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'html)
                   (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'odt))
               (replace-regexp-in-string "´\\([[:graph:]]+\\)" "‚\\1"
                                         (replace-regexp-in-string 
"\\([[:graph:]]+\\)´" "\\1‘"
                                                                   text)))
              ((org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex)
               (replace-regexp-in-string "´\\([[:graph:]]+\\)" "‚\\\\glq{}\\1"
                                         (replace-regexp-in-string 
"\\([[:graph:]]+\\)´" "\\1\\\\grq{}"
                                                                   text)))))
    #+end_src

It's a ´test´. "Please".

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 

Andreas Gösele writes:

> Thanks Juan Manuel!
>
> Your suggestion works for LaTeX, but I need the other formats too. I
> tried to convert the LaTeX document with pandoc, tex4h and latex2html to
> odt and html but none of them produces the correct output.
>
> So I'm wondering whether there is any way to make org export to
> recognize single quotes also outside from double quote. It should be
> possible as inner quotes is not the only use of simple quotes.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Andreas
>
> Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> I don't know if this is a bug, but I would say that in principle it's
>> the expected result. Single quotes are understood here as inner quotes
>> or second-level quotation marks, therefore they are only activated
>> nested in text with first level quotes: " ... '...' ... "
>>
>> lorem "ipsum 'dolor sit' amet"
>>
>> For LaTeX output, however, the csquotes package is a more powerful
>> option to control the correct quotation marks for each language. For
>> example:
>>
>> #+LaTeX_Header: \usepackage[german,english]{babel}
>> #+LaTeX_Header: 
>> \usepackage[babel=true,autostyle=true,german=quotes]{csquotes}
>> #+LaTeX_Header: \MakeOuterQuote{"}
>> #+LaTeX_Header: \MakeInnerQuote{´}
>>
>> #+LaTeX: \selectlanguage{german}\EnableQuotes
>> It's a ´test´. "Please".
>>
>> lorem "ipsum ´dolor´ sit" amet
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Juan Manuel 
>>
>> Andreas Gösele writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> even using "smart quotes", single quotes are not correctly exported into
>>> html, odt or latex.
>>>
>>> I have as document:
>>>
>>> | #+LANGUAGE: de
>>> | #+OPTIONS: ':t
>>> | #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
>>> | It's a 'test'. "Please".
>>>
>>> If I export it to html I get:
>>>
>>> | It&rsquo;s a &rsquo;test&rsquo;. &bdquo;Please&ldquo;.
>>>
>>> I should get:
>>>
>>> | It&rsquo;s a &sbquo;test&lsquo;. &bdquo;Please&ldquo;.
>>>
>>> If I export to latex I get:
>>>
>>> | It's a 'test'. "`Please"'.
>>>
>>> I should get:
>>>
>>> | It's a \glq{}test\grq{}. "`Please"'.
>>>
>>> If I export to odt I get:
>>>
>>> | It’s a ’test’. „Please“.
>>>
>>> I should get:
>>>
>>> | It’s a ‚test‘. „Please“.
>>>
>>> (The odt example outputs use utf8, I hope it gets transmitted.)
>>>
>>> So in all three cases apostrophes and double quotes are correctly
>>> exported, but not single quotes. Similar problem if I use "#+LANGUAGE:
>>> en".
>>>
>>> I have org-mode 9.3 with emacs 27.1.
>>>
>>> What could I do to get single quotes to be exported correctly?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>