Could you identify the AsciiDoc version you are using and how you installed
it? That way, I can be sure I'm making suggestions that are relevant to
your environment.

-Dan

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Shailen Tuli <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thank you for your detailed response. Unfortunately, using the + doesn't
> seem to work (it just shows up as a literal +). Using backticks with the
> .conf file that you showed also doesn't solve the problem (the backticks
> show up as literals). The backticked text is not getting placed in *any*
> tag, not even a <span> .
>
> And I get the problem whether I build to xhtml11 or html5.
>
> I'm using the following build commands:
>
> asciidoc -b html5 -a toc book.asciidoc
>
> or
>
> asciidoc -dbook -a toc book.txt
>
> Any idea where the problem may lie?
>
> - Shailen
>
>
> On Monday, March 11, 2013 11:46:14 AM UTC-7, Dan Allen wrote:
>
>> Shailen,
>>
>> You can continue to use backticks, though a more lightweight approach is
>> to plus symbols. The reason I say "more lightweight" is because the
>> backticks actually take the text out of the document when substitutions are
>> performed, then restores it afterwards. By doing so, nothing
>> is interpreted inside of the backticks. The plus symbols simply get wrapped
>> inplace. There are cases when you undesired substitutions when using the
>> plus symbols...but it's not too common.
>>
>> My recommendation is to use backticks when you find you need them,
>> otherwise the plus signs.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> +foo.bar()+
>> `foo.bar()`
>>
>> For some strange reason, the html5 backend in AsciiDoc is configured to
>> wrap literal text in <span class="monospaced"></span> instead
>> of <code></code>.
>>
>> This can be easily changed by including an override configuration file in
>> the same directory as the source file. If your source file is named
>> document.asciidoc, then create document.conf and populate it with:
>>
>> ifdef::basebackend-html[]
>>
>> [tags]
>> # +code+
>> monospaced=<code{1? class="{1}"}>|</code>
>>
>> [literal-inlinemacro]
>> # `code`
>> <code>{passtext}</code>
>>
>> endif::basebackend-html[]
>>
>> (The xhtml backend uses <code> tags, so you can consult it as a
>> reference: %asciidoc_install%/xhtml11.**conf)
>>
>> Consult the user guide for other ways to customize the output.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Shailen Tuli <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm switching over from markdown to asciidoc and have a question. In my
>>> markdown file, I use backticks to indicate code font (`foo.bar()`). When
>>> this is converted to html, the text gets placed inside code blocks
>>> (<code>foo.bar()</code>).
>>>
>>> How should I format a text fragment in asciidoc if I want it to appear
>>> within code blocks when the document is converted to html?  Many thanks.
>>>
>>> - Shailen Tuli
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