Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Alsinet
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > What about using org-entities for these quotes? > > \ldquo{}Hello \lsquo{}World\rsquo{}!\rdquo{} > > This is Org mode syntax, not LaTeX. > > Adonay: I wanted to solve this using smart quotes, that is when I

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
What about using org-entities for these quotes? \ldquo{}Hello \lsquo{}World\rsquo{}!\rdquo{} This is Org mode syntax, not LaTeX. Martin Alsinet writes: > Hello! > > My name is Martin and I use org-mode every day. This is my first message to > the mailing list, and I

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Colin Baxter
> Nick Dokos writes: > Martin Alsinet writes: >> ... I have found that the smart-quotes option of org-mode does >> not export properly the quotes when they are nested (single >> quotes inside double quotes), but only when they

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes [fixed]

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Alsinet
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:41 PM Martin Alsinet wrote: > Hello Nick. First, thank you so much for your detailed answer. > > I'm not sure whether smart quotes can be made smarter, perhaps by >> detecting the problem and inserting the small space \, to resolve the >>

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Alsinet
Hello Nick. First, thank you so much for your detailed answer. On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:16 PM Nick Dokos wrote: > > This example has the additional problem of the apostrophe in "let's", which > basically causes more mayhem. Let's simplify the example a bit by > considering > >

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Colin Baxter
> Martin Alsinet writes: > #+TITLE: Smart quotes example #+OPTIONS: toc:nil ':t #+LANGUAGE: > en #+LATEX_CLASS: book She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let's go > together'" > This gets exported to TeX as: > She said to me: ``Rick screamed, `let's

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Nick Dokos
Martin Alsinet writes: > ... > I have found that the smart-quotes option of org-mode does not export > properly the quotes when they are nested (single quotes inside double > quotes), but only when they coincide at the > start or the end of the quote. > > Maybe the

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Martin Alsinet writes: > Maybe the problem will be clearer with an example: > > #+TITLE: Smart quotes example > #+OPTIONS: toc:nil ':t > > #+LANGUAGE: en > #+LATEX_CLASS: book > > She said to me: "Rick screamed, 'let's go together'" > > This gets exported to TeX

Re: [O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Alsinet
Colin: The beauty of smart quotes is that I don't have to see the ugly LaTeX formatting in my org file, but the final document has the corresponding opening and closing quote characters. While I do sprinkle some LaTeX here and there in my org files, I think that would be going a little too far

[O] Nested smart quotes

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Alsinet
Hello! My name is Martin and I use org-mode every day. This is my first message to the mailing list, and I wanted to ask if somebody could help me with a problem I encountered when exporting a document with nested smart quotes. I have submitted the same question