Hello, Coleman Gariety <garie...@reed.edu> writes:
> Also, it occurs to me that one can make use of single quotation marks as > primary quotes when mentioning a word without using it. Moreover, when > italics and double quotation marks are also present, the use of single > quotations as primary is necessary. > > For example: > > 'GNU' is an acronym for the phrase "GNU's Not Unix!" but GNU is an > operating system and *not* an acronym. When you need that level of precision, smart quotes are not for you. "Smart" quotes are a dumb way to automate some basic typographic rules. Clearly, this is not what you are after. You can use entities directly to obtain the desired result, e.g. \rsquo, \lsquo... > Is it feasible to add an option to treat single quotation marks as primary > pairs on export? I think you are mixing up the level of quotation and the glyph used. You can export "..." as single quotes by setting `org-export-smart-quotes-alist' accordingly. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
