On 6 February 2015 at 10:26, Fernando Basso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, that is indeed close enough (although I don't like that unnecessary
> span tag).
Yes, but its unmodified asciidoc :)
>
> What I could do some minutes ago was to define :spc:   and
>
> [regex-inlinemacro]
> <code class='regex'>{passtext}</code>
What does your macro definition look like?
>
> Then, in the asciidoc file I write
>
> some text [.regex]`{spc}{spc}this ` more text
This is not legal syntax, having the dot, so its undefined what it
does, it may change at any time a change is made to Asciidoc. Don't
rely on it.
>
> and it translates to
>
> <code class='regex'> this </code> more text
>
> Note that I have to use [.regex]. Simply [regex] does not work. Also, simply
> using   instead
> of {spc} works, but using the {nbsp} doesn't work (no spaces are kept).
The ` is a constrained quote, that is the text inside it cannot begin
and end with spaces, thats the definition of constrained quotes. You
are basically fighting the asciidoc processor here.
Cheers
Lex
>
>
> On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 9:13:54 PM UTC-2, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> On 6 February 2015 at 09:20, Fernando Basso <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I swear to god I'm reading the user guide a lot. Still, I cannot figure
>> > out
>> > how to write a macro or create customize asciidoc for my need.
>> >
>> > I also found this example:
>> >
>> > http://mojavelinux.github.io/decks/asciidoc-with-pleasure/#42.0
>> >
>> > In that example, are the two pieces of code?
>> >
>> > What if I want to write something that allows me to write this in an
>> > asciidoc file:
>> >
>> > some text [.regex]` foo bar ` more text...
>>
>> Well
>>
>> some text [regex]++ foo bar ++ more text
>>
>> produces
>>
>> some text <code><span class="regex"> foo bar </span></code> more text
>>
>> Is that close enough?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>
>> >
>> > And make it translate to
>> >
>> > <code class='regex'>[space]foo bar[space][space]</code>
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't know. The docs seem to lack examples. But I feel it is my fault
>> > nonetheless because other
>> > people have learned to do wonderful things with it anyway.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help or insights.
>> >
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