Thanks, that worked. I feel like I should have been able to find it in the
docs -- where should I have been looking?
On Monday, June 3, 2013 5:34:27 PM UTC-6, Dan Allen wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
> In this case, what you are looking for is called "unconstrained" quoted
> text (in AsciiDoc, "quoted text" is just a way of saying "formatted text").
>
> Unconstrained quotes may appear anywhere in the text, such as around a
> segment of a word. They typically consist of two characters.
>
> Here's how you would use unconstrained quotes to get the monospace
> formatting you need:
>
> ++Int++s
>
> That will output:
>
> <code>Int</code>s
>
> You'll notice that I used pluses instead of backticks here. Unless the
> formatted content needs to be escaped from AsciiDoc substitutions, it's
> best to use pluses for monospaced text. Backticks work by taking the
> content out of the flow of the text while the text is processed, then
> reinserting the text back in at the placeholder positions. The pluses
> merely wrap monospace tags (e.g., <code>) around the text (in the same way
> the * wraps the text in <strong> and _ wraps the text in <em>).
>
> If you do need to escape the text (for instance if it contains something
> that looks like an attribute reference), using double backticks won't work.
> Instead, you need to use the double dollar (escaped text without applying
> special formatting to the result) combined with the unconstrained monospace
> quotes:
>
> ++$${Int}$$++s
>
> Which would output:
>
> <code>{Int}</code>s
>
> But, those situations are pretty rare :)
>
> -Dan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bruce Eckel <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Most of the time this happens when I want to pluralize something:
>>
>> `Int`s
>>
>> doesn't work, it requires a space which then looks odd:
>>
>> `Int` s
>>
>> I notice that a comma does *not* require a space:
>>
>> `Int`,
>>
>> Works.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
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