Hello,

James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes:

> But maybe there's a better solution for my specific case. The problem is
> that I'm using the colloquial <<'em>> for "them." The preceding space causes
> org to export this as `em. Normally a single quote after a space would
> correctly be an opening single quote, but here it's for a contraction and
> should be an apostrophe.

In that case, you should disable smart quotes, which are not smart
enough for your use case. Note that they are not enabled by default.

> Related question: If I wanted to force a non-breaking space in LaTeX export,
> how would I do that without a filter? ~ exports, reasonably, as
> \textasciitilde.

Use \nbsp{} macro.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

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