On 4 June 2013 10:22, Bruce Eckel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, that worked. I feel like I should have been able to find it in the
> docs -- where should I have been looking?



http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X51

Cheers
Lex


>
>
> 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]> 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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