On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/11/13 00:24, Dan Allen wrote:
> > Hey Axel & Stuart,
> >
> > Another way is to enable the attributes subs on the listing block.
> >
> > By default, a listing block has the subs specialcharacters and callouts.
> > You can modify this set as follows:
> >
> > [source,javascript]
> > [subs="specialcharacters,attributes,callouts"]
> > ----
> > ... = '{cow}';
> > ----
> >
> > Another option is to enable macros and use a pass:[] macro to allow the
> > char reference to go through untouched. However, I've observed conflicts
> > between escaped placeholders and syntax highlighting.
>
> You need to use postsubs instead of subs to ensure it's done after the
> highlighter has executed (subs is an alias for presubs),
Ah, right.
> but that still
> won't fix it because Attribute Entry values are substituted for special
> characters (see 'Attribute Entries'
> (http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X18)).
>
> Neither will putting pass:[🐄] in the listing because, again, the
> highlighter will escape the ampersand.
>
> The only way I can think of to ensure the ampersand is not escaped is to
> use a replacement e.g.
>
> :replacements.COW: 🐄
>
> [source,javascript]
> [presubs="none"]
> [postsubs="replacements"]
> ----
> var str = 'COW';
> ----
>
There's another way very similar to this approach:
:cow: pass:[]
[source,javascript]
[postsubs="attributes"]
----
var str = '{cow}';
----
That's probably the safest way since it doesn't add global word
replacements.
(Attributes truly are life savers).
-Dan
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