Stuart Rackham wrote: > From the AsciiDoc User Guide > (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X53): > > If you want to disable unconstrained quotes, the new alternative > constrained quotes syntax and the new index entry syntax then you can > define the attribute asciidoc7compatible (for example by using the -a > asciidoc7compatible command-line option). Stuart, the actual issues were: 1.) Input which works with asciidoc 7 fails to build with asciidoc 8 (after the intermediary XML step). This pair of tildes broke (but other occurences of tilde did not): | * A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit | object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named | commit object, following only the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is 2.) Asciidoc 8 silently swallows characters from input which works with asciidoc 7. The two pluses in the following line vanished (but instances of single pluses per input line did not vanish): | `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed I wonder: - Are tilde and plus new special characters in asciidoc 8, or were they already special characters in asciidoc 7? [ A pair of single pluses encloses monospaced text in asciidoc 8. A pair of single tildes encloses subscripts. ] - If they were already special characters in asciidoc 7, what is the canonical way to escape them in asciidoc 7, 8, and hopefully 9? [ If they weren't special characters in asciidoc 7, then we need to use the asciidoc7compatible attribute. ] - Does asciidoc 7 accept the asciidoc7compatible attribute? Thanks. PS: Junio, Stuart, here is another inconsistency between asciidoc 7 and 8. Please have a look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rev-parse.html . See the ASCII art above "SPECIFYING RANGES". The input \ | / \ \ | / | produced \ | / \ | / | I.e. backslash-newline was interpreted by asciidoc 7 (or whatever you use to generate what is put online) as an escaped thus swallowed newline. But the output that I got here from asciidoc 8 (manpage as well as the html file) still has backslash and newline printed out. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html