Localized quotation marks

[cbrnr]

I'm writing a Quarto document with lang: de in my YAML header. However, I noticed that quotation marks in the rendered HTML (probably also in other formats) are still English. Is it possible to get German quotation marks? German is just an example for any non-English language, so I'd be interested to learn how to enable non-English quotation marks in general.

[cderv]

I think this is not built-in Pandoc and we did not do anything specific around this. Current advice for Pandoc is to use a Lua filter (https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/tree/master/pandoc-quotes.lua) to do this. Details are given in their man page

It should work with Quarto, even if it has not been ported as an extension in https://github.com/pandoc-ext/

Related issue in upstream Pandoc jgm/pandoc#2620

@dragonstyle do you think we could bring this type of filter as a built in feature in Quarto ? Maybe as an extension it is ok though

[cbrnr]

Thanks! I saw the custom Lua filter solution, but thought that maybe I'm missing something that's perhaps more integrated. I'd love to see this either as a built-in feature or extension!

[cderv]

Maybe we have already something I am not aware - @dragonstyle will tell us. My understanding is that we rely mainly on Pandoc feature for localization.

[dragonstyle]

This does seem correct- I think it would be a great extension to support something more integrated, but right now I think taking this Pandoc approach seems correct. I looked briefly at csquotes or other LaTeX packages but couldn't find the way to get them to play nicely with our LaTeX output.