Apostrophe rendering as left smart-quote instead of right, when the possessive noun has a tooltip.

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• … the problem doesn’t occur with the mkdocs or readthedocs themes
• … the problem persists when all overrides are removed, i.e. custom_dir, extra_javascript and extra_css
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Description

If Word is defined as an abbreviation using the *[Word]: syntax, then Word's (e.g., this Access Group's permissions) renders with a left smart-quote instead of an apostrophe.

Expected behaviour

I would expect this markdown source:

Each section of the editor controls an access group's ability to view, and actions within, the listed pages.
Select the checkboxes to allow the appropriate actions.

*[access group]: Access groups allow admin users to<br>assign custom permissions to all<br>users assigned to that group.

To render wie so:

Actual behaviour

It is rendering like this instead:

Steps to reproduce

1. Put the above markdown source in a file.
2. Use the below configuration.
3. mkdocs serve

Package versions

• Python: 3.10.0
• MkDocs: 1.4.0
• Material: 8.5.6+insiders.4.25.2

Configuration

site_name: My Documentation
site_url: ""

plugins:
    - search:
        separator: '[\s\-\./\\]+'
    - offline

theme:
  name: material
  font:
    text: Montserrat
    code: Noto Sans Mono
  language: en

extra_javascript:
  - assets/mathjax/mathjax.js
  - assets/mathjax/tex-mml-chtml.js

markdown_extensions:
    - abbr: {}
    - smarty: {}
    - toc: {}
    - tables: {}
    - attr_list: {}
    - pymdownx.tabbed: {}
    - pymdownx.snippets: {}
    - meta: {}
    - md_in_html: {}
    - admonition: {}
    - pymdownx.details: {}
    - pymdownx.superfences: {}
    - def_list: {}
    - pymdownx.emoji:
        emoji_index: !!python/name:materialx.emoji.twemoji
        emoji_generator: !!python/name:materialx.emoji.to_svg
    - pymdownx.caret: {}
    - pymdownx.mark: {}
    - pymdownx.tilde: {}
    - pymdownx.keys: {}
    - footnotes: {}
    - pymdownx.arithmatex:
        generic: true

System information

• Operating system: macOS Monterey 12.6
• Browser: Chrome 107.0.5304.110, Safari 15.6.1, Firefox 106.0.2

[facelessuser]

That’s find as a stopgap solution, or if you just don’t mind maintaining such a solution, but ideally, an issue should be created on the original extension. There are all sorts of contractions, and a more intelligent way to address them would be ideal. I’m sure more issues like this will crop up in the future.

[facelessuser]

This is not a bug with Material but an issue with the smarty extension. Personally, I always turn off smart_quotes when using smarty for this and other reasons. I’m sure it could be improved though, but an issue would have to be filed upstream.