disable conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes in latex to wiki conversion

[jarnosc]

Hello!

I am using LaTeX with the wiki.sty package. I'd like to prevent Pandoc from converting the wiki markup ''italics'' or '''boldface''' into ”utf8” ”’quotes”’ when converting my latex file to wiki markup, for further processing. In fact, according to the manual, the directives "--smart-quote" "-S" work for converting to LaTeX, not from it; and if you require UTF-8 as input, it should be fairly easy to input the curly quotes directly, and I see no reason to encourage the use of those TeX ligatures anymore.

I think this issue fits in the category of feature request.

[jgm]

Try with --no-tex-ligatures

+++ jlrn7 [Nov 16 15 13:19 ]:

Hello!

I am using LaTeX with the wiki.sty package. I'd like to prevent Pandoc
from converting the wiki markup ''italics'' or '''boldface''' into
”utf8” ”’quotes”’ when converting my latex file to wiki markup, for
further processing. In fact, according to the manual, the directives
"--smart-quote" "-S" work for converting to LaTeX, not from it; and if
you require UTF-8 as input, it should be fairly easy to input the curly
quotes directly, and I see no reason to encourage the use of those TeX
ligatures anymore.

I think this issue fits in the category of feature request.

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1. disable conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes in latex to wiki conversion #2541

[jarnosc]

I fear I didn't explain myself: I normally type ''emphasis'' with two single quotation marks with the wiki.sty package on LaTeX; now I want to convert the LaTeX file to ''true'' wiki, but the processor converts my double single quotes into a unicode closing curly quotes; I want to avoid that. The --no-tex-ligatures switch also works only in conversion to latex, not from it.

[jgm]

OK, I understand:

% pandoc -t mediawiki -f latex 
''hi''
^D
”hi”

and you want ''hi'' instead. I think this is really a bug. the LaTex reader shouldn't be parsing these as a Quoted inline when --no-tex-ligatures is set. Fix is fairly easy.

[jgm]

On second look: the current situation with --no-tex-ligatures is confusing, since in addition to affecting the LaTeX writer it actually causes smart quote parsing to be turned off in the reader, but only when the output format is LaTeX or ConTeXt.

It would make more sense for --no-tex-ligatures to affect the LaTeX reader, no matter what the output format. (We'd still need to have it affect other readers when the output format is LaTeX or ConTeXt, because otherwise we get Quoted elements in the parse tree and the LaTeX writer would have no idea how to reconstruct the original delimiter characters. This is a bit ugly but I don't see a good way around it.)