Way to manually render language-aware opening/closing quote
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Description
Description
Add a parameter to smartquote() that explicitly renders an opening or closing quote.
#set text(lang: "en")
#smartquote(kind: "start") // [“]
#smartquote(kind: "end") // [”]
#set text(lang: "fr")
#smartquote(kind: "start") // [«\u{202F}]
#smartquote(kind: "end") // [\u{202F}»]
Potential syntax: kind: "start" | "end" | auto or "open" | "close" | auto, with auto (the existing behaviour) as the default.
Use Case
This would allow for language-agnostic rendering of styled pullquotes, like the mockup below. Right now, wrapping a single smartquote in a box or block always renders an opening quote, so there's no way to achieve the effect in the mockup without hard-coding a specific glyph.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the smartquote() implementation and the existing language-aware quote behavior. Read how the current automatic opening and closing quotes are selected, then add coverage for explicit start and end rendering across the shown English and French cases; done means the default behavior remains unchanged and both requested forms produce the documented output.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100