From: Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.orgemacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to insert apostrophe (') into code and verbatim text?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:09:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100205110922.18091522@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10085.1265302410@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
So I guess it's too complicated for the gurus. :-)
I'm already doing '=life= but I thought perhaps there was a quick hack to get ='life= to work. Oh well, not a biggie, life moves on...
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:53:30 -0500
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 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' :-)
--
--Thanks!
Uriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 15:00 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
2010-02-05 16:09 ` Uriel Avalos [this message]
2010-02-05 15:07 ` Nick Dokos
2010-02-04 17:31 ` Carsten Dominik
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