Re: [PATCH 0/6] AsciiDoc vs Asciidoctor, once again

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: May 14, 2021, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSp7JFS3j+DypQm=P-rPzyScvs+Yed75AXYBsQpbJtVytA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <609e6be4bc14d_4312720861@natae.notmuch>

On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 14:24, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Martin Ågren wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 03:40, Felipe Contreras
> > <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > We should be submitting bug reports to the asciidoctor project as well,
> > > so in the future it's less likely we find ourselves in the same
> > > scenario.
> > >
> > > Preferably the bug report should be in the commit message.
> >
> > I don't have an account with the website they use for their issue
> > tracking.
>
> GitHub? It probably takes a couple of minutes to set up an account.

Yes, it's GitHub. I'm not interested in having an account there. There's some trade-off there with me not being able to report bugs, but that cuts both ways, so I don't feel bad about it.

> > If you want to submit a bug report and post the link here,
> > that's fine by me and I'll include it in the reroll.
>
> If you would rather have me act as a proxy, that's fine by me.

Thanks. If you have better things to do, no worry.

> Just give me a simple example that produces the issue.

Here are three variants where AsciiDoc 8.6.10 renders the same, with emphasis:

  single quotes that will not render literally: 'git cat-file'.

  single quotes that won't render literally: 'git cat-file'.

  single quotes that\'ll render literally: 'git cat-file'.

With Asciidoctor (2.0.15),

  asciidoctor -b docbook5 -d manpage -o test.xml test.txt

the XML contains

<simpara>single quotes that will not render literally: <emphasis>git cat-file</emphasis>.</simpara> <simpara>single quotes that won’t render literally: <emphasis>git cat-file</emphasis>.</simpara> <simpara>single quotes that’ll render literally: 'git cat-file'.</simpara>

That last paragraph is not as expected. I expect <emphasis>.

I realize that a good answer here is "don't do that then". But the background is that there's some other stuff going on that means AsciiDoc needs that backspaced apostrophe. So this is a minimal reproduction for Asciidoctor where we've lost some of the AsciiDoc-specific background.

A fix that works with both tools is an attribute:

  :apos: '
  single quotes that won{apos}t render literally: 'git cat-file'.

Martin