Disabling smart punctuation doesn't work

[kymotz]

I am using the latest version of RStudio and R Markdown as by 2021-03-27, on Windows 10. My Pandoc is of version 2.11.2.

I added the line smart: false to the front matter of my rmd file inside the indented section following html_document:, but the output does not change, as smart punctuation is still applied to what was ASCII punctuations in the original file. I tried using the 'output options' GUI, deselecting the option Use smart puntuation and then selecting it again, but it did nothing but changing those false to no.

With smart: no in the front matter, the first few lines of the knit message read:

"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS ttt.utf8.md --to html4 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output ttt.html 

-smart is not found in the message. It is supposed to be following markdown as an extension, which worked well and disabled smart punctuation when I tried using pandoc with command lines:

pandoc smart.md -f markdown-smart -t html -o smart.html

Could it be a bug, or is there something wrong with my configuration? I'd appreciate any help.

[cderv]

Yes there was an issue with the smart argument. Since rmarkdown 2.2 it has been removed as an argument from html_document and other formats.

Pandoc activate it by default and if you need to deactivate it, you need to use now:

output:
  html_document:
    md_extensions:  -smart

See

Suggestion: drop the smart parameter from output formats