Re: Single and double quotes in Context with British English

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

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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