* Markdown italics and quotation marks @ 2023-04-04 23:22 Some Author Guy [not found] ` <d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Some Author Guy @ 2023-04-04 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 936 bytes --] I'm writing a book with ships in it. It's not uncommon for a quote to begin with the name of a ship, which I will attempt to italicize, but then to continue with normal speech, which ought not to be italicized. Consider the following paragraph: *"Shipname* is in port for the next week." This always fails. I get a pair of asterisks in the output and no italics. I don't have this problem without the unbalanced quotation mark, but I don't know why that is. I can't imagine why the quote would have any significance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n%40googlegroups.com. [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1290 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: Markdown italics and quotation marks [not found] ` <d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> @ 2023-04-05 0:01 ` John MacFarlane 2023-04-05 2:46 ` Daniel Staal 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: John MacFarlane @ 2023-04-05 0:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1759 bytes --] Do it this way: “*Shipname* is in port for the next week.” > On Apr 4, 2023, at 4:22 PM, Some Author Guy <archer884-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > I'm writing a book with ships in it. It's not uncommon for a quote to begin with the name of a ship, which I will attempt to italicize, but then to continue with normal speech, which ought not to be italicized. Consider the following paragraph: > > *"Shipname* is in port for the next week." > > This always fails. I get a pair of asterisks in the output and no italics. I don't have this problem without the unbalanced quotation mark, but I don't know why that is. I can't imagine why the quote would have any significance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <mailto:pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/2DE97F2C-9B6F-48BE-9EF3-271A71A0E383%40gmail.com. [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2849 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Markdown italics and quotation marks [not found] ` <d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> 2023-04-05 0:01 ` John MacFarlane @ 2023-04-05 2:46 ` Daniel Staal 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Daniel Staal @ 2023-04-05 2:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw On 4/4/23 7:22 PM, Some Author Guy wrote: > I'm writing a book with ships in it. It's not uncommon for a quote to > begin with the name of a ship, which I will attempt to italicize, but > then to continue with normal speech, which ought not to be italicized. > Consider the following paragraph: > > *"Shipname* is in port for the next week." > > This always fails. I get a pair of asterisks in the output and no > italics. I don't have this problem without the unbalanced quotation > mark, but I don't know why that is. I can't imagine why the quote would > have any significance. This one it's actually easier to see the issue in HTML. Here's what you're writing: <em><quote>Shipname</em> is in port for the next week.</quote> You can see in that the tags are improperly nested. Now, I can see an argument that Markdown shouldn't need to follow nesting conventions like HTML does, but the point stands that you have two overlapping tag sequences. (And in this case at least, I think it's also good English grammar - you're trying to italicize the name of the ship, not the start of the quote.) As John has already said, correcting the nesting will solve the issue: <quote><em>Shipname</em> is in port for the next week.</quote> Or in Markdown: "*Shipname* is in port for the next week." Daniel T. Staal -- --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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