Textile reader: don't do smart punctuation unless explicitly asked.

Closes #2480.

Note that although smart punctuation is part of the textile
spec, it's not always wanted when converting from textile
to, say, Markdown.  So it seems better to make this an option.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
index 83280aa2e..43aaa3f9a 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ readTextile opts s =
 -- | Generate a Pandoc ADT from a textile document
 parseTextile :: Parser [Char] ParserState Pandoc
 parseTextile = do
-  -- textile allows raw HTML and does smart punctuation by default
+  -- textile allows raw HTML and does smart punctuation by default,
+  -- but we do not enable smart punctuation unless it is explicitly
+  -- asked for, for better conversion to other light markup formats
   oldOpts <- stateOptions `fmap` getState
   updateState $ \state -> state{ stateOptions =
-                                   oldOpts{ readerSmart = True
-                                          , readerParseRaw = True
+                                   oldOpts{ readerParseRaw = True
                                           , readerOldDashes = True
                                           } }
   many blankline