Re: Single and double quotes in Context with British English

[BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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You can swap single/double quotes in the Pandoc AST with a simple filter:

``````lua
local swap = {
  DoubleQuote = 'SingleQuote',
  SingleQuote = 'DoubleQuote'
}
function Quoted (elem)
  elem.quotetype = swap[elem.quotetype]
  return elem
end
``````

Den ons 2 aug. 2023 19:59Thomas Hodgson <thomas.hodgson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I wonder whether it would be feasible/desirable for the Context writer to
> change its mapping from DoubleQuote/SingleQuote to `\quotation`/`\quote`
> based on the language of the document? (And the same for
> `\enquote`/`\enquote*` for LaTeX.)
>
> On Wednesday, 2 August 2023 at 18:27:38 UTC+2 Thomas Hodgson wrote:
>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> I tried this (included in my header) and I get the result I want visually
>> in the PDF:
>>
>> ```
>> \setuplanguage[en-gb][
>>   leftquotation=“,
>>   rightquotation=”,
>>   leftquote=‘,
>>   rightquote=’,
>> ]
>> ```
>>
>> On Wednesday, 2 August 2023 at 16:55:36 UTC+2 Bastien DUMONT wrote:
>>
>>> As you saw in the ConTeXt outputs, whatever language you set in the
>>> metadata, Pandoc will always identify double quotes as primary quotes and
>>> single quotes as secondary quotes. How they are rendered in PDF depends on
>>> ConTeXt. To alter the rendering of British English, you will need to use
>>> the macro \setuplanguage (
>>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplanguage).
>>>
>>> Le Wednesday 02 August 2023 à 07:10:40AM, Thomas Hodgson a écrit :
>>> > When I have a markdown file like this:
>>> >
>>> > ```
>>> > 'foo'
>>> > "bar"
>>> > ```
>>> >
>>> > The result of `pandoc --to=context foo.md` is `\quote{foo}
>>> \quotation{bar}`.
>>> > The result of `pandoc --to=context --output=foo.pdf foo.md` is what I
>>> would
>>> > expect: single quotes around 'foo' and double quotes around 'bar'. The
>>> output
>>> > of `pandoc --metadata=lang:en-GB --to=context foo.md` is the same.
>>> But, the
>>> > output of `pandoc --metadata=lang:en-GB --to=context --output=foo.pdf
>>> foo.md`
>>> > has double quotes around 'foo' and single quotes around 'bar'.
>>> >
>>> > I could solve this by using double quotes where I want single, and
>>> vice versa.
>>> > But that will give the wrong result for HTML from the same source.
>>> Also, I'm
>>> > sure that I would forget half the time.
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>> >
>>> > I think that the same thing happens with csquotes and LaTeX. But there
>>> I don't
>>> > turn on csquotes.
>>> >
>>> > Is there some way to get the behaviour I want while still using
>>> British
>>> > English?
>>> >
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