Re: [l2h] converting quotes
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, James Howison wrote:
Hi all,
I'd really like to convert the latex quotation marks, `` and '' to the
recommended HTML curly quotes, #8220 instead of `` and #8221 instead
of '' - standard codes that render the curly quotes beautifully.
set
$USE_CURLY_QUOTES =1;
in an initialisation file.
This is not the default, because not all browsers actually render
these characters. (At least, that was the situation 3-4 years ago when
the LaTex2HTML coding was written.)
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
I'm sure that this is possible through latex2html - the codes are
listed around unicode.pl:722 - but either I can't find the magic
incantation to have latex2html do the conversion or there is a bug
preventing this from working in my version (1.70) or set-up.
I've tried:
latex2html -html_version 4.0,unicode test.tex
What is strange is that this does work for, say \v{Z} which converts to
the code #381; (and that is definitely happening through unicode.pl (I
changed the translation and it worked fine).
So why doesn't the translation for `` (which is correctly listed in the
unicode.pl as \`\`) and '' which is correctly listed as \'\' work?
I've had a good hunt around for this - but I can't see why the other
codes are converted but not the quotes.
Cheers,
James
ps. minimal test.tex follows
--
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
``Why are these quotes not converted to unicode'' (they are in the
unicode.pl file)
While this symbol (also in the unicode.pl file) is? - \v{Z}
\end{document}
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Re: [l2h] converting quotes
On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 02:53 am, Ross Moore wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, James Howison wrote:
Hi all,
I'd really like to convert the latex quotation marks, `` and '' to the
recommended HTML curly quotes, #8220 instead of `` and #8221 instead
of '' - standard codes that render the curly quotes beautifully.
set
$USE_CURLY_QUOTES =1;
in an initialisation file.
That's great Ross - it works fine. I'm a little concerned that I found
this so hard to find in the documentation or indeed online. In fact
this phrase is kindof a googlewhack - a word that only is indexed in
google once (and unfortunately I didn't find it because the email
writer had miss-spelled quotation!).
That won't be true after these emails are indexed though ;) Is there
perhaps a more complete list of environment variables in the works?
http://www.google.com/search?q=$USE_CURLY_QUOTESie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8
Anyvay - I'm glad that this works - thanks a million.
This is not the default, because not all browsers actually render
these characters. (At least, that was the situation 3-4 years ago when
the LaTex2HTML coding was written.)
As you point out that was indeed true - but the times are a-changing ;)
It would be great to make stuff like this more visible - obviously
without forcing it on anyone. This guy seems to have done good
research into the best way to handle this:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html
Cheers
James
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
I'm sure that this is possible through latex2html - the codes are
listed around unicode.pl:722 - but either I can't find the magic
incantation to have latex2html do the conversion or there is a bug
preventing this from working in my version (1.70) or set-up.
I've tried:
latex2html -html_version 4.0,unicode test.tex
What is strange is that this does work for, say \v{Z} which converts
to
the code #381; (and that is definitely happening through unicode.pl
(I
changed the translation and it worked fine).
So why doesn't the translation for `` (which is correctly listed in
the
unicode.pl as \`\`) and '' which is correctly listed as \'\' work?
I've had a good hunt around for this - but I can't see why the other
codes are converted but not the quotes.
Cheers,
James
ps. minimal test.tex follows
--
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
``Why are these quotes not converted to unicode'' (they are in the
unicode.pl file)
While this symbol (also in the unicode.pl file) is? - \v{Z}
\end{document}
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[l2h] converting quotes
Hi all,
I'd really like to convert the latex quotation marks, `` and '' to the
recommended HTML curly quotes, #8220 instead of `` and #8221 instead
of '' - standard codes that render the curly quotes beautifully.
I'm sure that this is possible through latex2html - the codes are
listed around unicode.pl:722 - but either I can't find the magic
incantation to have latex2html do the conversion or there is a bug
preventing this from working in my version (1.70) or set-up.
I've tried:
latex2html -html_version 4.0,unicode test.tex
What is strange is that this does work for, say \v{Z} which converts to
the code #381; (and that is definitely happening through unicode.pl (I
changed the translation and it worked fine).
So why doesn't the translation for `` (which is correctly listed in the
unicode.pl as \`\`) and '' which is correctly listed as \'\' work?
I've had a good hunt around for this - but I can't see why the other
codes are converted but not the quotes.
Cheers,
James
ps. minimal test.tex follows
--
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
``Why are these quotes not converted to unicode'' (they are in the
unicode.pl file)
While this symbol (also in the unicode.pl file) is? - \v{Z}
\end{document}
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