Re: [Docutils-users] how to correct reStructuredText markup batchly.

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2016-05-21, Aahz wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016, Jeffery wrote:

>> hey,  recently i review the translation project that translate English reST
>> document into chinese reST document  use gettext tools on transifex
>> platform.

> Can you provide more information or at least a link?

>> a you know, there have no bank need in chinese, and most translator no
>> sense with reST markup, so that the no bank around reST markup.  now, i
>> want a tools/or scripts that can correct this issue batch process po file.

> What is a "bank"?

I suppose this should be "blank" (i.e. whitespace).

rST `inline markup recognition rules`__ require whitespace or punctuation
around inline markup. This is a problem for languages that dont't use
whitespace to separate words (Chinese, Japanese, ...).

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#inline-markup-recognition-rules

There is already a bug report and patch for this issue.
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/103/


--conservative-inline-markup
                        Require whitespace or punctuation around inline
                        markup. Enabled by default.
--simple-inline-markup  No restrictions on characters around inline markup.


> If you want a batch process, you need to identify some kind of text
> that you can use to delimit reST markup.

This might be solved via a set of regular expression replacements, but I
don't know a ready solution.

It might be simpler to apply the patch 
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/_discuss/thread/e5337656/6356/attachment/simple-inline-rules.patch
or wait for the config setting to
be in the SVN version and use it.

Günter