From: Thomas Hodgson <thomas.hodgson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Single and double quotes in Context with British English
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:27:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a416671d-1c67-4f4b-97c4-24b18e440466n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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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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2023-08-02 14:10 Thomas Hodgson
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2023-08-02 14:55 ` Bastien DUMONT
2023-08-02 16:27 ` Thomas Hodgson [this message]
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2023-08-02 17:57 ` Thomas Hodgson
[not found] ` <a1f39c5a-624a-48d7-af9a-d4b7dd66f3bbn-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
2023-08-02 18:19 ` Bastien DUMONT
2023-08-02 18:54 ` Thomas Hodgson
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2023-08-02 19:23 ` Bastien DUMONT
2023-08-02 20:26 ` Pablo Rodríguez
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2023-08-03 9:46 ` Thomas Hodgson
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2023-08-03 10:16 ` Bastien DUMONT
2023-08-03 14:23 ` Thomas Hodgson
2023-08-02 19:33 ` BPJ
2023-08-02 17:50 ` Pablo Rodríguez
[not found] ` <fc349c18-6989-67be-6a64-e701b4a06d16-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>
2023-08-02 18:54 ` Thomas Hodgson
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