On 23 October 2015 at 10:02, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for looking into it. I got around it by changing from ### to #@@.
> But, I could use passthru too.  Is that when you indent each line by two
> spaces?
>

That is a literal *block*, you only need to mark the stuff you don't
want translated as quotes, eg the ###es.  See
http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X80 (and the rest of that section
above it).

Cheers
Lex

>
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 23 October 2015 at 01:45, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So are you saying that the particular escaping that is needed for ###
> differs depending on context, and therefore I'd need to try different
> combinations at EACH OCCURRENCE within the document?
>
>
> No, clearly Asciidoc is a program, so its deterministic, but ...
>
> Quotes are detected by regular expressions.  The context that the
> regular expression applies to is complex and as I said above depends
> on what other quotes are around, if the quote can be interpreted as an
> opening quote, or a closing quote, if other quotes are processed
> before or after this quote and the context, ie how much text the
> regular expression looks in.  And I can't tell you if thats all
> without checking the code in great detail.
>
> Two situations are the same when they are *exactly* the same, but as a
> human we may have difficulty telling.
>
> In the specific case here I think the difference is the first
> occurrence of that sentence is in a paragraph with lots of other
> hashes around, which might be interpreted as the closing quotes for
> the ones in that sentence.  The second case the hashes only occur by
> themselves in a paragraph.
>
> It is unfortunate that the specific topic of your document uses many
> literal occurrences that might be interpreted as markup.  Usually
> things are not so complex.
>
> What I tend to do is to use a passthrough markup around literal
> content, such as backquotes.  Also this is usually styled so it makes
> the literal text different, making it more distinguishable to readers.
> But I acknowledge you might not want to do that.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
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