From Markdown into PDF: Why disabling the 'smart' extension doesn't disable replacement of apostropes?

From Markdown into PDF: Why disabling the 'smart' extension doesn't disable replacement of apostropes?

[name name]

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If I disable the `smart` extension when converting from Markdown to PDF, 
this successfully prevents replacing series of three hyphens with em 
dashes, and straight quotes with curly qurly quotes, but a single straight 
quotes that is used as an apostrophe is nevertheless convered into a curly 
one. Why?

- `foo --- bar` → `foo --- bar` (no changes, fine)
- ` `"What you say?" she said` → `"What you say?" she said` (no changes, 
fine)
- `John's car` → `John’car` (U+0027 has been replaced with U+2019, why?)

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Re: From Markdown into PDF: Why disabling the 'smart' extension doesn't disable replacement of apostropes?

[Bastien DUMONT]

In short, in the most recent versions of Pandoc (at least 2.19.1 I guess), you should be able to preserve the straight quote by escaping it (e.g. "John\'s car"). See this discussion for more details and a workaround for less recent versions: https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/En3Px-geqnI

Le Tuesday 23 August 2022 à 03:45:01AM, name name a écrit :
> If I disable the `smart` extension when converting from Markdown to PDF, this
> successfully prevents replacing series of three hyphens with em dashes, and
> straight quotes with curly qurly quotes, but a single straight quotes that is
> used as an apostrophe is nevertheless convered into a curly one. Why?
> 
> - `foo --- bar` → `foo --- bar` (no changes, fine)
> - ` `"What you say?" she said` → `"What you say?" she said` (no changes, fine)
> - `John's car` → `John’car` (U+0027 has been replaced with U+2019, why?)
> 
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