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

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

On 2016-05-30, Jeffery wrote:

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> hello,,

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

> 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.  

I suppose you mean blank (or whitespace), do you?

> now, i want a tools/or scripts that can correct this issue batch
> process po file.

I don't know of any such ready-made tool.

I see two possible ways:

a) Use a text editor or script language and regular expressions to convert
   e.g. "a*" to "a\ *" and "*a" to "*\ a" (a stands for any chinese letter
   around the inline markup).

b) Download a daily snapshot of Docutils from the SVN repository
   (http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docutils/)
   
   In the configuration file
   set the new setting "character-level-inline-markup: True" 
   or use the command line option ``--character-level-inline-markup``
   (see the SVN version of docutils/docs/user/cofig.txt).
   
   Of course, this only works if you can install this version at the
   target system.
   
Hope this helps

Günter