Re: output html entities?

[Adam Wood <adam.michael.wood-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Well this is 3 years later, but I happened to be looking into something and 
ran across it.

So... I can't tell if Mark was being facetious or not in his disavowal of 
any desire to have html entities for curly quotes, emdashes, etc.

I still strongly prefer it, especially for certain cases where I don't have 
control over the display environment. (I write for other people, and 
sometimes other people have bad html character set declarations --- also 
commenting systems, feeds, etc.)

My solution has been to execute pandoc from within a bash script I wrote 
that goes back afterwards and uses sed to replace characters with their 
appropriate entity.
(I also use it to direct the output to an appropriate directory, with a 
filename based on the original, and with all the other options I want --- 
rather than trying to remember and have to type a million flags and options 
and two file names into the command line)

kfile="$1.kramdown"
hfile="../html/$1.html"

pandoc -f markdown-auto_identifiers -S -o $hfile $kfile
sed -i '' -e "s/’/\’/g" -e "s/‘/\‘/g" -e 's/“/\“/g' -e 
's/”/\”/g' -e 's/—/\—/g' -e's/–/\–/g' $hfile
open -a "Sublime Text" $hfile








On Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 11:18:44 AM UTC-8, Mark (my words) wrote:
>
> Well, I’m embarrassed.
>
> I have been out of the loop for a *long* time. Back in the day I saw the 
> debate go from not using special characters, to using named entities, to 
> numerical entities, and back and forth. And now—
>
> Are we actually to a point were we can use real raw characters?!
> It strikes me as a fantastic magic.
>
> Bruce is right, we should be living in the present and planning for the 
> future. My bizarre need for human readable machine language is antiquated 
> and needless and moot—you can’t get much closer to human-readable than 
> straight-out unicode.
>
> Now I’m feeling rather silly for hacking up the Multimarkdown source code 
> to spit out named-entites now, but it was a lot of fun.
>
> And yeah, I’d installed the latest Tidy a couple months back but haven’t 
> had the time to screw with it until now, again more magic, that project has 
> come a long way too!
>
>
> Thanks guys for your patient advice.
>
>
> -Mark
>

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