smartInterpret 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:
markdown, commonmark, latex,
mediawiki, org, rst,
twiki, html
markdown, latex, context,
rst
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.