[Docutils-users] Re: punctuation

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Alan G Isaac wrote:

> .. |--|  unicode:: U+02013 .. EN DASH
>    :trim:

This shouldn't normally be trimmed.

> .. |`|   unicode:: U+02018 .. LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>    :rtrim:
> .. |``|  unicode:: U+0201C .. LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
>    :rtrim:

These two give a problem with international documents.

For languages like German, you have these quotation marks on the
*right*, not on the left, „like this“.  So for such documents it would
need to be ltrimmed, not rtrimmed.  You cannot even overwrite these
substitution definitions (because the parsers complains about duplicate
substitution definitions).

But anyway I think it's pretty scary to write something |``| like this
|''|.  It's just not really well-readable.

I'm not sure what to do about this all.

> .. |<|   unicode:: U+02039 .. SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
>    :rtrim:
> .. |>|   unicode:: U+0203A .. SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
>    :ltrim:

(Here, again, in some languages these are the other way round, because
you'd write it >like this< and not <like this>.)

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