typography: `'` (straight single quote) or `’` (curly single quote)

[morinmorin]

In the codeblock environment, single quotes are rendered as straight quotes; however, in other places (i.e. in most places), single quotes are rendered as curly quotes. IMO, it would be better to render them as straight quotes consistently.

Spreading out \textquotesingle is tedious and hurts readability. So modifying \tcode (and likes) to render single quotes as straight quotes would be nice.

[JohelEGP]

#5006 did it for the codeblock enviroment.

however, in other places (i.e. in most places), curly quotes are used.

I can only find one such place, added recently:

$ git grep -C1 "tcode{[^}]\*'" *.tex
compatibility.tex-std::format("{:*^{}}", "", '1');    // ill-formed, previously returned an
compatibility.tex:                                    // implementation-defined number of \tcode{'*'} characters
compatibility.tex-\end{codeblock}

[morinmorin]

At least in Chapter 5 ([lex]), most single quotes (e.g. single quotes in \tcode) are rendered as curly ones.

#5006 did it for the codeblock enviroment.

Thank you for the link to the related PR!

[JohelEGP]

My grep above didn't pick up any other ' in \tcode. But in [lex], I do see curly ' in the grammar.

[morinmorin]

You can use something like

grep --color=auto -n -P '\\\w+\{[^}]*'"'"'[^}]*\}' *.tex

(This assumes GNU grep and there are some false positives.)