Re: Single and double quotes in Context with British English

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>]

On 8/2/23 20:54, Thomas Hodgson wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but here is how I think it works now:
>
> 'foo' -> Quoted SingleQuote [ Str "foo" ] -> \quote{foo}
> "bar" -> Quoted DoubleQuote [ Str "bar" ] -> \quotation{bar}
>
> My suggestion is that if the language is British (and maybe for some
> other varieties, I haven't checked) the result should be:
>
> 'foo' -> Quoted SingleQuote [ Str "foo" ] -> \quotation{foo}
> "bar" -> Quoted DoubleQuote [ Str "bar" ] -> \quote{bar}
>
> That would avoid my problem.

After having using ConTeXt for more than a decade (mainly without
pandoc), I think this is an issue with ConTeXt, not with pandoc.

Quotes or quotation marks aren’t set in stone. I mean, for Spanish and
any language with diacritical marks I would never use these “quotes”,
but these «ones» (either single or double). They don’t interfere with
the marks (such as “ñandú” and «ñandú»).

I’m not a native speaker and I’m mainly exposed to US English. If
British English uses double quotes for \quotation and single quotes for
\quote, you could do the following:

Either you suggest to change the default in ConTeXt itself, or you place
a file that includes the following in your local tree:

  \setuplanguage[en-gb][
    leftquotation=“,
    rightquotation=”,
    leftquote=‘,
    rightquote=’,
  ]

I don’t have myself TeX Live installed (I use a pure ConTeXt
distribution) and in my case the file is
"$HOME/texmf/texmf-local/cont-loc.mkxl".

If you are on Windows, it would read
"%USERPROFILE%/texmf/texmf-local/cont-loc.mkxl".

After creating the file and saving the contents, it might be wise to
clean the cache and generate it again.

"mtxrun --scripts cache --erase && mtxrun --generate" does this in part.

After that, the next compilation would take longer, since it will have
to create the format file (required by ConTeXt).

Just in case it helps,

Pablo

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