R devel - Aug 2012 - Straight-quotes for usage and examples sections in PDF docs?

Is there any way to ensure that quotation marks are left as straight
quotes and not converted to curly quotes in the \usage and \examples
sections when the pdf versions of the docs are created?

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Lawrence <mike.lwrnc at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there any way to ensure that quotation marks are left as straight
> quotes and not converted to curly quotes in the \usage and \examples
> sections when the pdf versions of the docs are created?
>
Perhaps if the R session that builds the package has this option set:
options('useFancyQuotes' = FALSE)

I'm not sure what the context is, so I don't know if you'll be able
to
control this in every case.

Dan

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On 06/08/12 23:01, Mike Lawrence wrote:
> Is there any way to ensure that quotation marks are left as straight
> quotes and not converted to curly quotes in the \usage and \examples
> sections when the pdf versions of the docs are created?
They are not converted ... so there cannot be a way.

In standard terminology 'quotation marks' are ASCII/Unicode " , and
that
is what is in the PDF files (in so far as we can guess what you mean 
without an explicit example).  I have no idea what 'straight quotes' and
'curly quotes' are in your lexicon, but how even ASCII characters are 
rendered depends on the fonts used.

The R pdf manuals by default use inconsolata, where quotation marks are 
somewhat italic.   We knew that when selecting inconsolata, but it was 
the best compromise of the feasible choices.  Chose something else it 
you prefer a different compromise.


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