How do I stop bookdown reordering punctuation? - r

Question

I have forked bookdown-minimal here to produce the minimal reproducible example of my issue.
I want the following sentence to be rendered as is. That is, I want the full stop (period) to remain outside the quotes.
This is the on-line version of "A Book".
I have made a minimal bookdown example here
The line bibliography: [book.bib] causes the sentence to be rendered using "Build book" as
This is the on-line version of "A Book."
I know this is a convention of American English, but other languages (and other variants of English) don't do this and I don't want to do it in the real sentences I have (it seems that the issue occurs with other items of punctuation, such as ! and ?, that even American English puts in the correct place).
What is driving this behaviour? (Note that I am not actually including references in my minimal example.) Is there any easy way to stop it?

Answer 1

The system respects the lang metadata variable. So if you are writing British English, then add this to your YAML metadata:
lang: en-GB
The result should be
This is the on-line version of “A Book”.
whereas
lang: en-US
gives
This is the on-line version of “A Book.”
If all else fails, you can resort to adding a Lua filter which adds an invisible character like a zero-width joiner. This will prevent the reordering from happening as well.
function Quoted (quote)
return {quote, pandoc.Str '\u{200d}'}
end
Note that you can take advantage of this trick on a per-case basis by using the ‍ entity in your Markdown input:
This is the on-line version of "A Book"‍.

Answer 2

This should do the trick:
This is the on-line version of "\text{A Book}"\text{.}