Extension: smart
Interpret straight quotes as curly quotes, ---
as em-dashes, --
as en-dashes, and ...
as ellipses. Nonbreaking spaces are inserted after certain abbreviations, such as "Mr."
This extension can be enabled/disabled for the following formats:
input formats : markdown
, commonmark
, latex
, mediawiki
, org
, rst
, twiki
output formats : markdown
, latex
, context
, rst
enabled by default in : markdown
, latex
, context
(both input and output)
Note: If you are writing Markdown, then the smart
extension has the reverse effect: what would have been curly quotes comes out straight.
In LaTeX, smart
means to use the standard TeX ligatures for quotation marks (``
and ''
for double quotes, `
and '
for single quotes) and dashes (--
for en-dash and ---
for em-dash). If smart
is disabled, then in reading LaTeX pandoc will parse these characters literally. In writing LaTeX, enabling smart
tells pandoc to use the ligatures when possible; if smart
is disabled pandoc will use unicode quotation mark and dash characters.