Asciidoctor :: Discussion

Re: Smart quotes and DocBook

Posted by mojavelinux on Oct 30, 2018; 4:02pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Smart-quotes-and-DocBook-tp6566p6575.html

I'm totally fine with adding an attribute. I just need to know which one to add that doesn't impact DocBook validation.

It seems very strange to me that DocBook doesn't account for this case. On the other hand, we can't go back on hard coding the smart quotes for English as that sabotages other languages.

This issue is really in DocBook's court, though we can certainly do something as an interim measure.

Please file an enhancement request so we can track it.

Cheers,

-Dan

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 09:38 pela [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

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

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