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| author | John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com> | 2012-01-01 13:48:28 -0800 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com> | 2012-01-01 13:48:28 -0800 |
| commit | da8425598a8ab4a98388e8ee346a2ae7ec540aa0 (patch) | |
| tree | 20078094309f4fc57ea67e5b2d17163f86078ec1 /README | |
| parent | 3cf60c73061f247b531da4b3c18664c6134bee53 (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-da8425598a8ab4a98388e8ee346a2ae7ec540aa0.tar.gz | |
New treatment of dashes in --smart mode.
* `---` is always em-dash, `--` is always en-dash.
* pandoc no longer tries to guess when `-` should be en-dash.
* A new option, `--old-dashes`, is provided for legacy documents.
Rationale: The rules for en-dash are too complex and
language-dependent for a guesser to work reliably. This
change gives users greater control. The alternative of
using unicode isn't very good, since unicode em- and en-
dashes are barely distinguishable in a monospace font.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -206,11 +206,17 @@ Options `-S`, `--smart` : Produce typographically correct output, converting straight quotes - to curly quotes, `---` and `--` to dashes, and `...` to ellipses. - Nonbreaking spaces are inserted after certain abbreviations, such - as "Mr." (Note: This option is significant only when the input format is - `markdown` or `textile`. It is selected automatically when the input - format is `textile` or the output format is `latex` or `context`.) + to curly quotes, `---` to em-dashes, `--` to en-dashes, and + `...` to ellipses. Nonbreaking spaces are inserted after certain + abbreviations, such as "Mr." (Note: This option is significant only when + the input format is `markdown` or `textile`. It is selected automatically + when the input format is `textile` or the output format is `latex` or + `context`.) + +`--old-dashes` +: Selects the pandoc <= 1.8.2.1 behavior for parsing smart dashes: `-` before + a numeral is an en-dash, and `--` is an em-dash. This option is selected + automatically for `textile` input. `-5`, `--html5` : Produce HTML5 instead of HTML4. This option has no effect for writers |