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Can't get rid of "smart mode" #2480

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I am converting Textile to Markdown and cannot get rid of the "smart" mode (at this point, I'd more likely call it a "stupid" mode :)

From the docs (emphasis mine):

(Note: This option is significant only when the input format is markdown, markdown_strict, textile or twiki. It is selected automatically when the input format is textile or the output format is latex or context, unless --no-tex-ligatures is used.)

This might be the issue - the "smart" mode is turned on automatically for Textile but there is no way to suppress it.

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BTW, according to the docs (if you read them exactly), --no-tex-ligatures should suppress the smart mode even for Textile, but that quite obviously doesn't work.

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That's probably because Textile was created to render to HTML where typography makes a lot of sense. (The docs explicitly state that the output is HTML.) When converting to another textile-like markup, I am not sure typography should be applied, at least I feel it shouldn't be forced.

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Created a topic here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/dYh9FZw3BmY

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@jgm 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.
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