Smart quotes and DocBook

Running asciidoctor with docbook output the sentence.

A "`double-quoted word`" and a '`single-quoted word`'.

Gives the translation:
<simpara>A

double-quoted word

 and a

single-quoted word

.</simpara>

Is this intended? How can I differentiate the quote marks?

pela

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In DocBook, this customization relates to the rather obscure, "Gentext" (Generated text) customization files:

http://docbook.10921.n7.nabble.com/changing-output-of-chars-in-lt-quote-gt-td3869.html#a3870

On the general subject of Gentext-customization, see http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html#CustomGenText

In short: One's customization of, say, what a

<quote>

 at a certain depth gets turned into, goes (not into the Gentext files, but) into your customization layer--where "you create local versions of the generated text elements". But therefore, one's understanding of what pertinent options there are derives from knowing what pertinent "generated text elements" reside in your natural language's Gentext file.

Cheers,
Andy

<quote author="mojavelinux">
It seems like the DocBook toolchain only alternates the quotes by the
depth. So there's no way to specify the quote used specifically (by
default, at least), even if we were to add an attribute.

See
https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/blob/76a3690fa5d6adc5915ceed299d263a825e20e79/xsl/fo/inline.xsl#L794-L813

Cheers,

-Dan

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:23 PM mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion]
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> That's a good question. It's a consequence of this change:
> https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2272
>
> How are single and double quotes differentiated in DocBook? I actually
> don't know. If I knew, it would be straightforward to add additional markup
> since we know which one it is at the time of conversion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Dan
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:45 PM pela [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden
> email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=6567&i=0>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Running asciidoctor with docbook output the sentence.
>>
>> A "`double-quoted word`" and a '`single-quoted word`'.
>>
>> Gives the translation:
>> <simpara>A
>>
>> double-quoted word
>>
>>  and a
>>
>> single-quoted word
>>
>> .</simpara>
>>
>> Is this intended? How can I differentiate the quote marks?
>>
>> pela
>>
<snip>

As the author of a custom DocBook->latex translator, this is bad news and means that there is no way to take advantage of the asciidoctor syntax for double-quoted and single-quoted words. Maybe this info could be supplied to the docbook output, e.g. in the form of:

* a custom role for the quote element
* a custom processing instruction (<?dblatex single/double>) before or after

or some other form which do not sabotage for normal DocBook readers?

pela

Ok, I have file a issue report. Understand the problem with the DocBook format. Thanks for your help and comments.

pela