Re: [Docutils-users] Re: automatic typography

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Kirill Lapshin wrote:

> If we will think about possible sets of rules, the most problematic area
> is quotes conversion. Looks like there are 5 types of quotes:
>
> 1. Double (``foo'')  (TeX: ``foo'')
> 2. Single (`foo')    (TeX: `foo')
> 3. German (,,foo'')  (TeX: "`foo"')
> 4. French (<<foo>>)  (TeX: "<foo">, \og foo \fg{})
> 5. Single angle (<foo>)  (TeX: \flq foo \frq)
>
> Interesting that germans use french comments too, but >>the other way
> round<<.
>
> The ultimate solution would be to come up with some easy ways to
> explicitely enter all different quotes (akin TeX). Coupled with optional
> automatic conversion of regular quotes to one of the above styles it
> will create a sound solution. However I don't see 5 good syntaxes for
> quotes, given that backquotes are overloaded heavily. Even if we
> consider that single angle quotes are not common, and don't really need
> a short form.
>
> What are possibilities? <<foo>>, "{foo"}, "<foo">, "-foo-", "'foo'",
> "''foo''", "@foo@", "$foo$", "#foo#"?
>
> Most of these are ugly, others might be ambiguos.
>
> The best I see so far is "''double''", "'single'", "<french">, "{german"}

IMHO currently a quote in ReST is ".

The latex-writer makes it to ``'' for english and "`"' for german.
i will add french on request, but maybe french enter << >> in ReST ?

cheers
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