[l2h] converting quotes

[Ross Moore]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, James Howison wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd really like to convert the latex quotation marks, `` and '' to the
> recommended HTML curly quotes, &#8220 instead of `` and &#8221 instead
> of '' - standard codes that render the curly quotes beautifully.

set
 $USE_CURLY_QUOTES =1;
in an initialisation file.

This is not the default, because not all browsers actually render
these characters. (At least, that was the situation 3-4 years ago when
the LaTex2HTML coding was written.)


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


>
> I'm sure that this is possible through latex2html - the codes are
> listed around unicode.pl:722 - but either I can't find the magic
> incantation to have latex2html do the conversion or there is a bug
> preventing this from working in my version (1.70) or set-up.
>
> I've tried:
>
> latex2html -html_version 4.0,unicode test.tex
>
> What is strange is that this does work for, say \v{Z} which converts to
> the code Ž (and that is definitely happening through unicode.pl (I
> changed the translation and it worked fine).
>
> So why doesn't the translation for `` (which is correctly listed in the
> unicode.pl as \`\`) and '' which is correctly listed as \'\' work?
>
> I've had a good hunt around for this - but I can't see why the other
> codes are converted but not the quotes.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> ps.  minimal test.tex follows
>
> ----------
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> ``Why are these quotes not converted to unicode''  (they are in the
> unicode.pl file)
> While this symbol (also in the unicode.pl file) is? - \v{Z}
> \end{document}
>
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