Oops! Files attached. Thanks! 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>‘_emphasis_’</p></div> > >> > >> > >> Where the desired output is: > >> > >> <div class="paragraph"><p>‘<em>emphasis</em>’</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 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "asciidoc" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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Test DocumentA small AsciiDoc document testing handling of emphasis. emphasis ‘emphasis’ `emphasis' ’emphasis'' ‘emphasis’ `emphasis' |
