Can't get rid of "smart mode"

[borekb]

I am converting Textile to Markdown and cannot get rid of the "smart" mode (at this point, I'd more likely call it a "stupid" mode :)

From the docs (emphasis mine):

(Note: This option is significant only when the input format is markdown, markdown_strict, textile or twiki. It is selected automatically when the input format is textile or the output format is latex or context, unless --no-tex-ligatures is used.)

This might be the issue - the "smart" mode is turned on automatically for Textile but there is no way to suppress it.

[borekb]

BTW, according to the docs (if you read them exactly), --no-tex-ligatures should suppress the smart mode even for Textile, but that quite obviously doesn't work.

[jgm]

The reason smart mode is automatic for textile input is
simply that this treatment of quotes seems to be part of
standard textile: see e.g.
http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/

If I'm wrong about this, please link to appropriate docs.

There's no point in making pandoc interpret textile
differently from standard textile processors, is there?

+++ Borek Bernard [Oct 25 15 07:30 ]:

I am converting Textile to Markdown and cannot get rid of the "smart"
mode (at this point, I'd more likely call it a "stupid" mode :)

From the [1]docs (emphasis mine):

(Note: This option is significant only when the input format is
markdown, markdown_strict, textile or twiki. It is selected
automatically when the input format is textile or the output format
is latex or context, unless --no-tex-ligatures is used.)

This might be the issue - the "smart" mode is turned on automatically
for Textile but there is no way to suppress it.

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References

1. http://pandoc.org/README.html
2. Can't get rid of "smart mode" #2480

[borekb]

That's probably because Textile was created to render to HTML where typography makes a lot of sense. (The docs explicitly state that the output is HTML.) When converting to another textile-like markup, I am not sure typography should be applied, at least I feel it shouldn't be forced.

[jgm]

+++ Borek Bernard [Oct 25 15 16:57 ]:

That's probably because Textile was created to render to HTML where
typography makes a lot of sense. (The docs explicitly state that the
output is HTML.) When converting to another textile-like markup, I am
not sure typography should be applied, at least I feel it shouldn't be
forced.

That's a good point. You wouldn't normally want it
converting to Markdown, for example. Perhaps we should
discuss this on pandoc-discuss.

[borekb]

Created a topic here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/dYh9FZw3BmY