Re: Smart quotes not working correctly with single quotes

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Andreas,

I don't know if this is a bug, but I would say that in principle it's
the expected result. Single quotes are understood here as inner quotes
or second-level quotation marks, therefore they are only activated
nested in text with first level quotes: " ... '...' ... "

lorem "ipsum 'dolor sit' amet"

For LaTeX output, however, the csquotes package is a more powerful
option to control the correct quotation marks for each language. For
example:

#+LaTeX_Header: \usepackage[german,english]{babel}
#+LaTeX_Header: \usepackage[babel=true,autostyle=true,german=quotes]{csquotes}
#+LaTeX_Header: \MakeOuterQuote{"}
#+LaTeX_Header: \MakeInnerQuote{´}
#+LaTeX: \selectlanguage{german}\EnableQuotes
It's a ´test´. "Please".
lorem "ipsum ´dolor´ sit" amet

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 

Andreas Gösele writes:

> Hi,
>
> even using "smart quotes", single quotes are not correctly exported into
> html, odt or latex.
>
> I have as document:
>
> | #+LANGUAGE: de
> | #+OPTIONS: ':t
> | #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
> | It's a 'test'. "Please".
>
> If I export it to html I get:
>
> | It’s a ’test’. „Please“.
>
> I should get:
>
> | It’s a ‚test‘. „Please“.
>
> If I export to latex I get:
>
> | It's a 'test'. "`Please"'.
>
> I should get:
>
> | It's a \glq{}test\grq{}. "`Please"'.
>
> If I export to odt I get:
>
> | It’s a ’test’. „Please“.
>
> I should get:
>
> | It’s a ‚test‘. „Please“.
>
> (The odt example outputs use utf8, I hope it gets transmitted.)
>
> So in all three cases apostrophes and double quotes are correctly
> exported, but not single quotes. Similar problem if I use "#+LANGUAGE:
> en".
>
> I have org-mode 9.3 with emacs 27.1.
>
> What could I do to get single quotes to be exported correctly?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Andreas
>