Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

[Christoph Freitag]

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Hi,

this is on smart quotes: A year ago I changed SmartyPants in my local 
installation to convert everything so that it is correct in German. 
Actually it was quite hard to find all the occurances of the relevant 
strings to change in the source code, even with search and replace.

Wouldn't it be good to have a definition section at the beginning of 
the programme or, better still, a selector for different "built-in" 
languages? This selector could then even be triggered by some "code" in 
the parsed text.

I don't think, however, that it is a good idea to mix different 
languages' styles in one document. I have never seen this in print, 
except in texts that wanted to show precisely these layout differences.

I would strongly oppose using ´´or ,, or the like for different quotes. 
This has put me off in Latex -- and you never see it in emails.

Christoph
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