Re: Conversion of apostrophe in texi to PDF (was Re: Typos in LM)

[Trevor Daniels]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:33 PM
> Am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008 schrieb Jonathan Kulp:
> > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > It seems that texi2pdf replaces all single quotes by a smart right 
> > > quote.
> > > Even if you use it inside @code{c'}, you'll not get a ' but a curved 
> > > one
> > > :(
> >
> > I don't see how this is true,
>
> It is true ;-)
>
> > though, because there are many examples of
> > single quotes in the .pdf learning manual (for example) that are *not*
> > smart quotes.  Look at section 2.1.1 on page 11, for example, where c'
> > e' g' e' appear with nice straight single quotes.
>
> yes, that's because these examples do not use @code{...}, but rather
> @example
> ....
> @end example
> blocks. Inside @example, smart quotes are note used, but all quotes inside
> @code{..} ARE replaced by smart quotes, if there is an alphabetic 
> character
> before the quote.
>
> See for example all the code blocks in the running text of section 2.1.4 
> in
> the LM (p. 18 of the PDF).

All these bad examples have @code nested within another
construct, either @w or @warning.  There is one example
containing a straight code after an alphabetic character that
is not within another macro, and it remains straight.  It is
in 2.5.4 Absolute note names, second para, second sentence.
The source is:

"A @code{c'} will always mean middle C, a
@code{b} will always ..."

This quote remains straight in the pdf.

There's another example.  In 3.4.1 Soprano and cello
we have in the source:

"Remember to rename both
instances of all these names -- both the initial definition (the
@code{melody = \relative c' @{ } part) and the name's use (in the
@code{\score} section)."

The quote on c' also remains straight in the pdf.

So I'm guessing it is the double nesting that
causes the replacement.

I shall change one of the bad examples and push
to git origin/master to check.

Trevor