Re: Smart quotes not working correctly with single quotes

[Andreas Gösele]

Albert Krewinkel <albert+org-mode@zeitkraut.de> writes:

> Andreas Gösele <agoesele@sju.edu> writes:
>
>> [...] 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.
>
> I apologize for the non-Emacs solution, but you can use pandoc in
> combination with the following Lua filter to get the desired result:
> https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/tree/master/pandoc-quotes.lua
> For LaTeX output, you can also pass -Vcsquotes as a parameter to force
> pandoc to make use of the csquotes package. Both should give you the
> desired results.

Thanks for the suggestion. I would be happy to use pandoc.

I tried it and it works well for quotes (double and single). But the
apostrophe only is correctly treated if I convert to LaTeX/PDF. (That's
because LaTeX transforms the "typewriter apostrophe" into the correct
typographic apostrophe.)

From:

 #+LANGUAGE: de
 #+OPTIONS: ':t
 #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
 It's a 'test'.

I get for html/odt:

 It's a ‚test‘.

But I should get:

 It’s a ‚test‘.

Directly using the org export I get:

 It’s a ’test’.

So with pandoc and the Lua filter the single quotes are correct, with
the direct export from org the apostrophe is correct.

Is there a way with pandoc to get correct quotes and apostrophes?

Thanks again!

Andreas