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

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 schrieb 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?

for the @address@hidden we already changed it as a workaround. However, we have 
some @address@hidden (that macro is defined as in the sample 
file of my first mail) and we apparently cannot change this...

> 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.  

Yes, that doesn't sound like a proper solution :(

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

It is actually active all the time by default, but we need to deactivate it 
completely, since ' is the octave indicator for note pitches and thus must 
not appear as a curly quote! In particular, in standard music notation used 
practivally everywhere (and thus also in LilyPond) c' or do' is the note an 
octave up from c or do and c'' or do'' is the note an further octave up.

The problem only shows when we try to disable curly quotes altogether.

Cheers,
Reinhold


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