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On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 12:08:51 PM UTC+11, Lex Trotman wrote:
>
> On 17 January 2016 at 10:54, James Bostock <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Using unconstrained quotes (i.e. `__emphasis__') produces the desired 
> > output. 
>
> In asciidoc single quotes need whitespace outside them (or a few 
> allowed punctuations eg full stop), so they are less likely to be 
> recognised in unwanted situations.  Whilst unconstrained quotes can 
> occur anywhere. 
>
> > 
> > I found that, in addition to the asciidoc tool, there is another tool, 
> > asciidoctor. Asciidoc and asciidoctor do not agree on how various 
> > combinations of quotes and emphasis should be handled. Attached is a 
> small 
> > example AsciiDoc document and the output generated by asciidoc (version 
> > 8.6.9) and  asciidoctor (version 1.5.2). In neither case do I specify 
> > command line options. 
>
> Actually you didn't attach it. :) 
>
> Asciidoc is the original implementation, asciidoctor is a new 
> implementation.  It fixes some of the implementation specific quirks 
> of asciidoc and has some improvements, and is waaaaay faster :) but it 
> also has a backward compatible mode where it is intended that it match 
> the *specified* behaviour of asciidoc (but perhaps not some of the 
> implementation specific quirks, of which quote substitution is one). 
> IIUC the compatibility mode is invoked automatically if it recognises 
> some specific features of the document or can be specified manually. 
>
> Cheers 
> Lex 
>
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > James 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 9:57:27 AM UTC+11, James Bostock wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hi, 
> >> 
> >> I am using AsciiDoc 8.6.9. 
> >> 
> >> I want to include emphasized text within single quotation marks. The 
> >> problem seems to be that the emphasized text is all that there is 
> within the 
> >> quotes: 
> >> 
> >> `_emphasis_' 
> >> 
> >> The XHTML output for this is: 
> >> 
> >> <div class="paragraph"><p>&#8216;_emphasis_&#8217;</p></div> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Where the desired output is: 
> >> 
> >> <div class="paragraph"><p>&#8216;<em>emphasis</em>&#8217;</p></div> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Curiously (I have been experimenting while writing this message), the 
> >> following does work as desired: 
> >> 
> >> `'emphasis'' 
> >> 
> >> I.e. using single quote marks instead of underscores. Is it, thus, a 
> bug 
> >> in AsciiDoc that this doesn't work with underscores? 
> >> 
> >> Thanks, 
> >> 
> >> James 
> > 
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Title: Test Document

A small AsciiDoc document testing handling of emphasis.

emphasis

emphasis

`emphasis'

’emphasis''

emphasis

`emphasis'

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