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How can I get org-babel to properly render ' and not ’ when exporting to LaTeX and to Beamer? I didn't find any good solution yet, and I would like the code to be copy-pasteable.

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Smart quotes render 'text' as `text' in LaTeX.

That can be done in following ways.

Enable smart quotes for all exports

Put this in your init.el after loading org-mode.

(setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t)

Enable smart quotes on export only a particular org file

Put this in the beginning of the org file.

#+OPTIONS: ':t

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    I tried this solution but still get the same issue.
    – mhartm
    Nov 4, 2014 at 5:14
  • Actually I notice that, even without (setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t) it renders ' for html but not for latex nor beamer exports.
    – mhartm
    Nov 4, 2014 at 5:53
  • @mhartm I thought of smartquotes and upquotes as the same. The second solution should resolve your question.
    – Kaushal Modi
    Nov 4, 2014 at 17:39
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I misunderstood your question when writing my first answer. Here's a second try, tested out.

Solution

You need to use a combination of alltt and upquote latex packages. Here is my solution based on the below referenced solutions from TeX SE and the use of org-mode Macro Replacement.

The below MWE was tested on emacs -Q, emacs 24.4.

#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{alltt}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{upquote}

#+LaTeX_HEADER: \makeatletter
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \newcommand*{\textalltt}{}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \DeclareRobustCommand*{\textalltt}{%
#+LaTeX_HEADER:   \begingroup
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \let\do\@makeother
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \dospecials
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \catcode`\\=\z@
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \catcode`\{=\@ne
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \catcode`\}=\tw@
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \verbatim@font\@noligs
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \@vobeyspaces
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \frenchspacing
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     \@textalltt
#+LaTeX_HEADER: }
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \newcommand*{\@textalltt}[1]{%
#+LaTeX_HEADER:     #1%
#+LaTeX_HEADER:   \endgroup
#+LaTeX_HEADER: }
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \makeatother

#+MACRO: UPQUOTE @@latex:\textalltt{'}@@

Without upquotes: 'How' about this?

With upquotes: {{{UPQUOTE}}}How{{{UPQUOTE}}} about this?

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Requirements

  • alltt and upquote LaTeX packages. If you use TexLive, you can do tlmgr install alltt and tlmgr install upquote.

References

  • How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX - TeX-SE
  • alltt package's \alltt{} makes a newline - TeX-SE
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    Thanks, but I want upquotes always to be upquotes, like when text is exported to html. I don't want to add {{{UPQUOTE}}} each time...
    – mhartm
    Nov 5, 2014 at 4:39

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