Re: Single and double quotes in Context with British English

[Thomas Hodgson <thomas.hodgson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thank you. That works if the 'smart' extension is turned off. It might be 
the best way to be sure that what I type is what I get in the PDF.

On Wednesday, 2 August 2023 at 19:51:05 UTC+2 Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> On 8/2/23 16:10, Thomas Hodgson wrote:
> > [...]
> > I assume that this happens because Pandoc treats the double quote as the
> > 'top' level of quotes, which in US English is a double quote and in UK
> > English (in this case, confusingly) is a single quote. I don't think
> > it's a bug, therefore.
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I think this is how ConTeXt configures the default values for different
> languages.
>
> US English is the default
> (
> https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/25db3a7c9d8720471ac3740cba828d73f87365ff/tex/context/base/mkxl/lang-def.mkxl#L24
> ).
>
> British English has the opposite values of US English
> (
> https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/25db3a7c9d8720471ac3740cba828d73f87365ff/tex/context/base/mkxl/lang-def.mkxl#L24
> )
> for both the \quote and the \quotation commands.
>
> Because of issues similar to this one, I always type quotes in their
> final character.
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> Pablo
>

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