From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to insert apostrophe (') into code and verbatim text?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:53:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10085.1265302410@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com> of "Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:48:38 EST." <20100204114838.330cbb08@yahoo.com>
Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's an easy one for the guru's, why does an apostrophe at the beginning of a =code= not work? When I export the following text to HTML, the "'life" variable isn't set as code (and the = symbols show up):
>
> Select ='life= for the x variable.
>
> If I escape the apostrophe, I course get back the escape character in the HTML:
>
> Select =\'life= for the x variable.
>
Emphasis is applied by matching against a regular expression stored in the variable
org-emph-re. I get
,----
| org-emph-re is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is
| "\\([ ('\"{]\\|^\\)\\(\\([*/_=~+]\\)\\([^
\n,\"']\\|[^
\n,\"'].*?\\(?:\n.*?\\)\\{0,1\\}[^
\n,\"']\\)\\3\\)\\([- .,:!?;'\")}\\]\\|$\\)"
|
| Documentation:
| Regular expression for matching emphasis.
`----
which is way too complicated for my simple mind to wrap around without
some guidance. But the doc for org-export-with-emphasize says:
,----
| org-export-with-emphasize is a variable defined in `org-exp.el'.
| Its value is t
|
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means, interpret *word*, /word/, and _word_ as emphasized text.
| If the export target supports emphasizing text, the word will be
| typeset in bold, italic, or underlined, respectively. Works only for
| single words, but you can say: I *really* *mean* *this*.
| Not all export backends support this.
|
| This option can also be set with the +OPTIONS line, e.g. "*:nil".
`----
so *words* are emphasized[1].
Can you write
Select '=life= for the x variable.
instead? The quote is not part of the <code> block, but does that
make much difference? And if it does, a little postprocessing on the
HTML might be all that is needed[2].
HTH,
Nick
[1] although after staring at it for a while and with the hindsight
provided by the org-export-with-emphasize doc, the part that goes [^ ^M\n,\"']
specifically excludes spaces, tabs, carriage returns, newlines,
commas, double quotes and single quotes as components of words.
[2] You might try changing the RE (it is constructed in
org.el:org-set-emph-re()) - but regular expressions are very unforgiving
beasts: you forget one character or add one too many and the whole thing
goes to hell in a handbasket, faster than a bat out of hell - choose
your own cliche' :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 16:48 How to insert apostrophe (') into code and verbatim text? Uriel Avalos
2010-02-04 16:53 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2010-02-05 16:09 ` Uriel Avalos
2010-02-05 15:07 ` Nick Dokos
2010-02-04 17:31 ` Carsten Dominik
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