Hello, Leonard Randall <leonard.a.rand...@gmail.com> writes:
> The new smart quotes algorithm does not seem to capture British style > quoting (single outer quotes, double inner quotes) correctly. It > treats all single quotes that are not enclosed in double quotes as > apostrophes. I assume that it was revised to deal with apostrophes > that occur on the outside of words, and I saw that it was updated > again just last week to deal with some edge cases. Correct. > Do you think that there is an easy way to make it recognise single > outer quotes without sacrificing the recent gains, or would it be > better just to treat American style quoting as the standard for source > files, and just add an en-gb entry to org-export-smart-quotes-alist > that converts double quotes to single quotes and vice versa? The latter. You can fix "en" entry in `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' and add a new "us" entry, if needed. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou