Just escape the first single quote with a backslash. Cheers Lex
On 1 March 2011 06:09, Wirawan Purwanto <[email protected]> wrote: > Consider the following asciidoc snippet: > > :t: tesr1 > > (this is a `{t}') test > this is a `{t}' test > > which in your current asciidoc renders as: > > // begin asciidoc snippet > > ================== > :t: tesr1 > > (this is a `{t}') test > this is a `{t}' test > ================== > > // end asciidoc snippet > > The paragraph above is messed up because the first single quote > character is misinterpreted as the beginning of an "emphasis" > quotation. > I meant to have the two "tesr1" strings agove (which is an expansion > of attribute "t") to be singly quoted; > instead, asciidoc renders the string > > ) test this is a `tesr1 > > in emphasized format instead. > The correct rendering should have been like this: > > ================== > (this is a `tesr1') test > this is a `tesr1' test > ================== > > From the [quotes] section in asciidoc.conf I see that the > ++emphasis++-style quotation precedes the ++singlequoted++ entry, > so emphasis is processed before single quotation. > It appears to me that the "singlequoted" should be processed first. > I verified that reversing the order of the two quotations fix the > problem with my test sentence above. > But I am not an asciidoc expert, so I want to know if there is an > issue by swapping the two > (in the original asciidoc 8.6.4, this entails swapping lines 76 and 77 > in asciidoc.conf). > One thing we note right away is that the singly-quoted emphasis like > > This is `supposed to be an 'emphasis' inside the singly quoted > piece' > of text. > > will not work anymore. The workaround is to use underscore rather than > single aphostrophe, i.e., > > This is `supposed to be an _emphasis_ inside the singly quoted > piece' > of text. > > Any comment? > > Thanks, > Wirawan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
