[Pmwiki-users] Cookbook coments: flexlayout printable-page smartquotes

[John Rankin]

smartquotes: Unfortunetly I had to turn it off. The problem is that it=20
replaces all quotes, while for instance 3.5" should not be replaced.=20

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2 possible solutions: write 3.5[=3D"=3D] or (better) 3.5″ (assuming =
that 3.5" means 3.5 inches)

more generally: 6′ and 7″
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Much bigger problem is that lines indented with one space often used to=20
include source code snippets and other similiar information, and from my=20
point of view it does not make any sense to process quotes in there.=20

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Depending on what else is in the line, you can again write=20
  [=3Dsource code snippet=3D]
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Also it might be useful to use n-dash when dash is between two digits;=20
n-dash essentially is a minus sign.=20

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Well, what does one do about: "The 8am Wellington-Picton ferry has been =
cancelled. Southerly gales in Cook Strait are causing 15 metre swells."

While it could easily render [0-9]\s*- as an en dash, it may be better to =
let people write (say) `- (backtick minus) and have this render as – =
(the alternative is -- for en dash and --- for em dash, but most people =
write -- when they mean em dash, so I don't think that's a good idea)

Thus one would write: the meeting is from 1`-3 (en dash) but half-baked =
for a normal hyphen.

My understanding is that strictly, an en dash means 'to' so 1 en dash 3 =
means 1 to 3, whereas 1 - 3 means 1 minus 3.=20
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Another suggestion -- if I am not=20
mistaken angle quotes are used for quoted text within quoted text. If it=20
is possible to automatically place angle quotes that would be great.
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It already replaces << ... >> with left and right angle quote marks (&[lr]=
aquo;) -- the guillemet symbols. Are you suggesting it should also replace =
< ... > with &[lr]saquo; -- easily done.

I'd rather not have it second guess what conventions an author wants to =
follow; I'd rather follow the author's lead.

And where does it stop? ... could becomes &hellip; so the dots never break =
across a line, and so on.

Are there other "obvious" smart things it should do?


JR