Re: Smart quote replacement in texi2pdf broken with nested @code and @warning / @w

[Karl Berry]

    > @address@hidden code inside w: c'}} produces a curly quote
    > @address@hidden w inside code: c'}} produces a straigth quote

Sigh.  I don't have a good answer for you.  The cause is the catcodes
being set at the "wrong" time (in this case), which is a fundamental
attribute of TeX.  Can you just use the form you want?

    -\def\codex #1{\tclose{#1}\endgroup}
    +\def\codex #1{\tclose{\scantokens{#1}}\endgroup}

I am scared of this change.  For one thing, if we're not running e-tex,
it will cause a temp file to be written and read on every @code (and
similar) command.  That seems incredibly painful.  I also wonder about
nested commands requiring \scantokens.  (I wonder about that now, in fact.)

Maybe we could make ` and ' active all the time, like " and other
characters are now.

karl