Re: [PATCH] ox.el: add smart quotes for Greek

[Max Nikulin]

I believe, the patch is an improvement. It would be nice to have a 
comment clarifying the choice of secondary opening quote mark, but it is 
not required. It seems there is no recommendations or established 
practice for documenting of such decisions. I have not tested the patch 
though.

> -`org-export-smart-quotes-alist' and `org-export-dictionary'.
> +`org-export-smart-quotes-' and `org-export-dictionary'.

It it intentional change? I have not found other variables having the 
same prefix.

On 22/09/2021 03:20, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> > [...]
> > Possible options:
> > - Add the note directly to the .el file. I am afraid, as inline
> >    comment it could be considered too long.
> > - To a file in the "doc" directory dedicated to such decisions (there
> >    is no such file yet however) with a reference from the .el file.
> > - Commit message. It is acceptable but not apparent for a person who
> >    reads the code that git log may provide detailed explanation of
> > particular choice.
> ...
> Haralambous is a great TeX guru, and a great scholar and theorist of
> Greek typography, but... I would say that in this case his mind is more
> focused on a historical tradition probably abandoned before the digital
> age.

That character could get better support in future. I know, such chance 
is almost improbable, but imagine, a person familiar with the paper of 
Haralambous would consider change of the quote mark in question 
believing that Org developers were not aware of the "right" symbol. A 
comment in the source code may provide a hint that the choice was conscious.

I forgot to mention it in my message from 2020-08-15 that I did not find 
the U+201F character in TeX pre-unicode LG* encodings for Greek.