Plural possessives and “smart” punctuation

[brycewray]

I am using Hugo 0.79.1. The issue does occur with this version.

While I suspect it’s Goldmark-caused rather than Hugo-caused, the Goldmark developer seems to require Goldmark issues that are observed in Hugo to be proposed as Hugo issues before he will have anything to do with them. So I’ll start here.

Consider the following text in a Markdown file:

John's dog is named Sam. The Smiths' dog is named Rover.

Expected result: Each apostrophe should be a “smart”/curly apostrophe (’), given the default behavior of Goldmark’s Typographer extension as it works in Hugo.

Actual result: Only the singular possessive (John's dog) has the “smart”/curly apostrophe, while the plural possessive (Smiths' dog) has the “dumb”/straight apostrophe (').

Thanks in advance for any help or consideration this issue may receive.

[Brixy]

It seems to be a goldmark issue, indeed.

When using blackfriday, ‘trailing apostrophes’ work:

markup:
  defaultMarkdownHandler: blackfriday

Output:

<p>John&rsquo;s dog is named Sam. The Smiths&rsquo; dog is named Rover.</p>

Happy New Year!

[brycewray]

Thanks, @Brixy — will file an issue in the Goldmark repo.

[skyfaller]

Upstream has a stale bot that automatically closed the issue because we didn't constantly comment. The issue has not been fixed, but the upstream author says "I welcome PR from native English writers.", so it could be fixed upstream if we can find someone to help.

Here are two web pages demonstrating the issues:

• https://gm-typographer.vercel.app/
• https://www.maximumethics.dev/blog/2021/03/smart-quotes/

Can anyone figure out a solution and/or submit a PR for Goldmark? Since Blackfriday is being deprecated, there does not seem to be a good workaround.

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