From beaa386ca97341e66ad673660c808993240df637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri van Heesch <dimitri@stack.nl>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:55:38 +0200
Subject: Correction display of backtick in LaTeX

---
 src/markdown.cpp | 21 +++++++++------------
 src/util.cpp     |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/markdown.cpp b/src/markdown.cpp
index 0d98410..42ec49d 100644
--- a/src/markdown.cpp
+++ b/src/markdown.cpp
@@ -956,6 +956,15 @@ static int processCodeSpan(GrowBuf &out, const char *data, int /*offset*/, int s
       i=0;
       nl++;
     }
+    else if (data[end]=='\'' && nb==1 && (end==size-1 || (end<size-1 && !isIdChar(end+1))))
+    { // look for quoted strings like `some word', but skip strings like `it's cool`
+      QCString textFragment;
+      convertStringFragment(textFragment,data+nb,end-nb);
+      out.addStr("&lsquo;");
+      out.addStr(textFragment);
+      out.addStr("&rsquo;");
+      return end+1;
+    }
     else
     {
       i=0; 
@@ -982,18 +991,6 @@ static int processCodeSpan(GrowBuf &out, const char *data, int /*offset*/, int s
     f_end--;
   }
 
-  if (nb==1) // check for closing ' followed by space within f_begin..f_end
-  {
-    i=f_begin;
-    while (i<f_end-1)
-    {
-      if (data[i]=='\'' && !isIdChar(i+1)) // reject `some word' and not `it's cool`
-      {
-        return 0;
-      }
-      i++;
-    }
-  }
   //printf("found code span '%s'\n",QCString(data+f_begin).left(f_end-f_begin).data());
 
   /* real code span */
diff --git a/src/util.cpp b/src/util.cpp
index 1b169cb..d3d7dfe 100644
--- a/src/util.cpp
+++ b/src/util.cpp
@@ -6733,6 +6733,8 @@ void filterLatexString(FTextStream &t,const char *str,
                    break;           
         case '"':  t << "\\char`\\\"{}";
                    break;
+        case '`':  t << "\\`{}";
+                   break;
         case '\'': t << "\\textquotesingle{}";
                    break;
         case ' ':  if (keepSpaces) { if (insideTabbing) t << "\\>"; else t << '~'; } else t << ' ';
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