[l2h] converting quotes

[James Howison]

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 02:53  am, Ross Moore wrote:
>
> 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.

That's great Ross - it works fine.  I'm a little concerned that I found 
this so hard to find in the documentation or indeed online.  In fact 
this phrase is kindof a googlewhack - a word that only is indexed in 
google once (and unfortunately I didn't find it because the email 
writer had miss-spelled quotation!).

That won't be true after these emails are indexed though ;)  Is there 
perhaps a more complete list of environment variables in the works?

http://www.google.com/search?q=$USE_CURLY_QUOTES&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Anyvay - I'm glad that this works - thanks a million.

> 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.)

As you point out that was indeed true - but the times are a-changing ;) 
  It would be great to make stuff like this more visible - obviously 
without forcing it on anyone.  This guy seems to have done good 
research into the best way to handle this:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html

Cheers
James

>
>
>
> 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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