Ihor Radchenko writes: > We may introduce \apostrophe entity. > > "two articles: 'my friends\apostrophe party' and 'the students\apostrophe > papers'" > > "A Greek folk song says: \apostrophe{}να \apostrophe{}ρθώ το βράδυ'"
It's not a bad idea to use entities. I just discovered that an \rsquo entity already exists. Right single quotation mark is the Unicode recommended character for the apostrophe, and it is also the character used in org-export-smart-quotes-alist[1]. Anyway, I think a) your patch could be a major improvement; b) perhaps a brief note in the manual (I can send a tiny patch) should be added to warn of possible ambiguities, and possible solutions. [1] Although there are arguments against this Unicode recommendation, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_single_quotation_mark