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* Problem pdf-conversion, citations with titles with punctuation inside nested quotations
@ 2022-02-10 11:14 John Carter Wood
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From: John Carter Wood @ 2022-02-10 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello, 

Last year I had had a problem with citations that had internal terminal 
punctuation (that ended, e.g. with exclamation points) rendering correctly 
as pdfs. That was solved by an update to a newer version of pandoc. 

I am now running into a slightly different problem regarding the rendering 
of titles that have internal punctuation inside *nested* quotation marks. 
This problem only seems to arise, however, when I'm using German (de-DE) 
quotation marks via pandoc-quotes.lua. It does _not_ happen when using the 
English or Swiss-German quotes (guillemets), also via pandoc-quotes.lua. (I 
had to make the slight change to pandoc-quotes.lua that another user 
recently discussed here after updating to the latest version of pandoc.)

So, the original title (as I have it entered in Zotero: I export to a 
library in JSON) is: 

"Mother, what did policemen do when there weren't any motors?" The law, the 
police and the regulation of motor traffic in England, 1900–1939

In English (en-GB) it renders fine (see attached image, en-US is also fine 
though with the single- and double-quotes reversed, as it should be). 

[image: Cite-en-GB.png]

With de-CH set as language, it also works as expected. 

[image: Cite-de-CH.png]
But if I change the language to de-DE (which is the language I actually 
need!) the question mark is turned upside down and the closing internal 
quote disappears.

[image: Cite-de-DE.png]
The same thing happens with other terminal punctuation marks (e.g. 
exclamation points) that are inside nested quotes. 

I am running the latest pandoc (2.17.1.1). 

I have tried various things, from changing the Zotero entry (using 
typographic quote marks, using `` and '' instead of regular quote marks) to 
trying export as bibtex/biblatex and nothing seems to work. 

It renders fine as a docx.

Am I doing something wrong and/or does anyone have an idea how to solve 
this?







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