Re: How to insert apostrophe (') into code and verbatim text?

[Uriel Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>]

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