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jvdh

Jul 14, 2017; 8:43am

asciidoctor-pdf problem after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6: "failed to parse formatted text"

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after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6, asciidoctor-pdf fails with error messages such as

Failed to parse formatted text: a & times; b

wenn the document contains HTML character entities such as "& times;". is this a known issue?

thank you,

joerg

mojavelinux

Jul 14, 2017; 8:58am

Re: asciidoctor-pdf problem after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6: "failed to parse formatted text"

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Does the document contain the glyph or a character reference? It would be easiest if you shared the snippet of AsciiDoc that contains the character so I understand the context.

This issue is news to me. But I'm not sure yet how to reproduce what you're encountering.

Cheers,

-Dan

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after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6, asciidoctor-pdf fails with error messages such as

Failed to parse formatted text: a × b

wenn the document contains HTML character entities such as "×". is this a known issue?

thank you,

joerg

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jvdh

Jul 14, 2017; 9:21am

Re: asciidoctor-pdf problem after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6: "failed to parse formatted text"

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sorry for the confusion (I've edited the original post in the meantime to avoid unintended glyph display ..): the test documents entire content is

//cut here
a {some_character_entitity_reference} b
//cut here

I've tried `& times;' and `& beta;' but probably others don't work either. so I am talking of the character reference/symbolic name, not the glyph.

and I am only guessing that it is related to the 1.5.6 upgrade (it did work before the upgrade and it does not now), but I have not yet "downgraded" back to 1.5.5 to double check if 1.5.5. still works now ;-)... if relevant: this is seen on osx 10.12/ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]

thank you,

joerg

mojavelinux

Jul 14, 2017; 9:32am

Re: asciidoctor-pdf problem after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6: "failed to parse formatted text"

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Asciidoctor PDF does not support named character references (other than the built-in ones in XML like >). You must use numeric references.

a × b

It's on the roadmap to support other variants.

Do you get a warning if you use the numeric reference?

-Dan

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:21 AM, jvdh [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

sorry for the confusion (I've edited the original post in the meantime to avoid unintended glyph display ..): the test documents entire content is

//cut here
a {some_character_entitity_reference} b
//cut here

I've tried `& times;' and `& beta;' but probably others don't work either. so I am talking of the character reference/symbolic name, not the glyph.

and I am only guessing that it is related to the 1.5.6 upgrade (it did work before the upgrade and it does not now), but I have not yet "downgraded" back to 1.5.5 to double check if 1.5.5. still works now ;-)... if relevant: this is seen on osx 10.12/ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]

thank you,

joerg

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jvdh

Jul 14, 2017; 10:42am

Re: asciidoctor-pdf problem after upgrade to asciidoctor 1.5.6: "failed to parse formatted text"

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:33:26 +0200, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor ::
Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> Asciidoctor PDF does not support named character references (other than
> the
> built-in ones in XML like >). You must use numeric references.

oh... I see.

>
> a × b
>
> It's on the roadmap to support other variants.

great!

>
> Do you get a warning if you use the numeric reference?

no more parse errors, you are right, of course...

so it seems that I had a misconception about it working prior to 1.5.6 and
that I simply just used character entities with asciidoctor-pdf (rather
than asciidcoc/dblatex...) for the first time right after the upgrade to
1.5.6 ....

sorry for the noise.

joerg

>
> -Dan
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:21 AM, jvdh [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> sorry for the confusion (I've edited the original post in the meantime
>> to
>> avoid unintended glyph display ..): the test documents entire content is
>>
>> //cut here
>> a {some_character_entitity_reference} b
>> //cut here
>>
>> I've tried `& times;' and `& beta;' but probably others don't work
>> either.
>> so I am talking of the character reference/symbolic name, not the glyph.
>>
>> and I am only guessing that it is related to the 1.5.6 upgrade (it did
>> work before the upgrade and it does not now), but I have not yet
>> "downgraded" back to 1.5.5 to double check if 1.5.5. still works now
>> ;-)...
>> if relevant: this is seen on osx 10.12/ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16
>> revision
>> 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> joerg
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mojavelinux

Jul 14, 2017; 9:48pm

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No problem at all. I'm glad to help!

Cheers,

-Dan

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