[l2h] Converting emdashs and endashs?

[James Howison]

Now I have curly quotes happening (yay!) I am wondering about the other 
special characters.  I realize that this will break back-wards 
compatibility but that is not an issue for my needs.

I would like "---" to be converted to "—" as defined in the 
unicode.pl file at 799 - but this doesn't seem to happen - instead it 
is converted to "--".  This is also what happens if I change --- to 
{---}.

I'm not sure why some of the conversions in the unicode.pl file happen, 
while others do not.  I can't find an equivalent of the 
$USE_CURLY_QUOTES in the source code that seems relevant to mdash ...

Any ideas on how to get a maximal set of the conversions in unicode.pl 
actually happening?  I notice that there is no do_cmd_textemdash in 
unicode.pl - is that why?

Also I see from the source that converting single quotes is 
tough---perhaps I'm naive but it would seem to me that this sequence 
would work...

s/``/“/og
s/`/‘/og     # once the `` is gone then the ` is only used for 
open single quote right?
s/''/”/og
s/'/’/og     # Will also replace apostrophes with close curly 
single - not a bad thing.

i.e. ensure that one does the singles after the doubles ...

But there is probably a better algorithm in the source code for 'quoter'

http://www.dwheeler.com/quoter/

Thanks,
James


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.
>
> 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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