Re: Straight Quotes / Curly Quotes

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 6/18/2021 12:10 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> I usually convert all kinds of quotation marks into \quotation{} / \quote{} using the regex search of my editor; a regex replacement is also part of my docx-to-ConTeXt converter script. (I see no need to avoid regexes, but YMMV.)
> 
> The biggest problem I face are mixed and wrong quotation marks, e.g. English marks in a German text, a mixture of curly/straight marks, traditional LaTeX q. marks and similar mistakes. Some programs have a default of English single quotes with German double quotes :(
> 
> In what kind of workflows does your program make sense?
> (Please don’t be offended, my view is limited.)
lua is normally fast enough to handle it wirh a few expresions or lpeg 
but in the end it depends on hwo far one will go

for instance, if it is for converting gutenberg files that extensive 
conversion can help ... with intermediate test runs (for instance 
coloring quitations quickly shows a runaway that then can be fixed in 
the input

For instance:

"Not all open quotes are closed...

kind of tricky because there one needs to know the source so there is no 
real universal solution (one could layer it)

in the past we had projects where we did the rendering and used tex but 
the rendering was trivial ... they came to us because we were able to 
turn crap into useful (it's unbelievable what can come from databases or 
generated from web applications, lack of symmetry, multiple escaping, 
bad encodings, inconsistencies) ... unfortunately the money is often 
already spent in getting to the stage where the crap is produced

but anyway after year sone kind of knows that there is always a solution 
(also because tex and related tools are so flexible and can help with 
diagnosing)

Hans

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