Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > ``comment'' produces smart quotes in latex if I remember correctly. > You probably want to convert it somehow because it looks a bit odd on > the web page as it stands. I'm not sure what the reST replacement > might be, but converting it just to "comment" would probably be OK. > Likewise with `comment' to 'comment'. > > For an example see the first paragraph here: > > http://pydoc.gbrandl.de/reference/index.html
What latex does here for typeset output is nice, but it's also a bit of a hack job. The ` and ' characters aren't smart, the fonts just have curved glyphs for them. `` and '' are mapped to additional glyphs using ligatures, again part of the font information. The result, of course, is really nice. :-) Scott Dial wrote: > In fairness to Georg, latex2html also misses the smart quotes. See the > same paragraph here: > > http://docs.python.org/ref/front.html There's a way to make latex2html do "the right thing" for these, except... it then happily does so even to ` and '' (and `` and '') in code samples, since there's no equivalent to the font information used to handle this in latex. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
