Re: Apostrophe rendering in pdf

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

I've just pushed a change to the LaTeX writer so that this workaround won't be needed in the future.

> On Aug 16, 2022, at 9:48 AM, Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> The problem is that LaTeX interprets the ' character as a right single quote. As John said, to type a straight quote, you can use the command \textquotesingle.
> 
> If you want all straight quotes in the LaTeX source produced by Pandoc to be printed as such in the PDF output, you can write the following instructions in your preamble (via "header-includes" or in your template):
> 
> \catcode`\'=13
> \def'{\textquotesingle}
> 
> Then, by disabling the “smart” extension and backslash-escaping the single quotes that should printed as such (e.g. “it's the value \'value\'”), you should get the desired output.
> 
> Le Tuesday 16 August 2022 à 08:56:36AM, Claudio Di Vita a écrit :
>> I used &apos; for ' but with the all the possible combinations of smart
>> extensions (enabled/disabled on input and/or output format), an apostrophe is
>> rendered as a right single quote ’ (&rsquo;).
>> 
>> Maybe it depends on some LaTeX package I have included :(
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Claudio 
>> 
>> Il giorno martedì 16 agosto 2022 alle 15:06:47 UTC+2 BP ha scritto:
>> 
>>    Then use HTML entities:
>> 
>>    -   ‘  `&lsquo;`
>>    -   ’  `&rsquo;`
>>    -   “  `&ldquo;`
>>    -   ”  `&rdquo;`
>>    -   «  `&laquo;`
>>    -   »  `&raquo;`
>>    -   ‹  `&lsaquo;`
>>    -   ›  `&rsaquo;`
>> 
>>    These will always work, except that you might have to experiment with the
>>    `+smart` and `-smart` extensions on the output format (some formats
>>    counterintuitively require `-smart` to get the curved characters!)
>> 
>>    For all the details see:
>> 
>>    <[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark>
>> 
>> 
>>    Den tis 16 aug. 2022 12:38Claudio Di Vita <claudio...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>> 
>>        Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work (with or without the
>>        smart extension)
>> 
>>        Il giorno giovedì 28 luglio 2022 alle 09:59:28 UTC+2 BP ha scritto:
>> 
>>            A backslash before the apostrophe `\'` should give you a straight '
>>            and `&rsquo;` should give you a Unicode apostrophe/right single
>>            quotation mark. If you are using LaTeX to produce PDF `\'` should
>>            in effect give you a Unicode apostrophe, at least if you don't use
>>            `--to latex+smart` (I think; I'm not near a machine with LaTeX
>>            installed right now.)
>> 
>>            Den ons 27 juli 2022 22:50Claudio Di Vita <claudio...@gmail.com>
>>            skrev:
>> 
>>                When I convert my markdown document to pdf, I notice that when
>>                a string is within two apostrophes (the ' character), the
>>                apostrophe is rendered like a left single quote.
>> 
>>                Is there any way to change this behaviour ?
>> 
>>                Thanks a lot, cheers
>> 
>>                Claudio
>> 
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