Single and double quote characters are now set using the {lsq}, {rsq},

{ldq} and {rdq} attributes. This makes is easy to customise language
specific quotes. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/e15282f072413940

6 files changed, 33 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/asciidoc.conf b/asciidoc.conf
index 7100138..6eced9d 100644
--- a/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/asciidoc.conf
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ two-semicolons=;;
 # DEPRECATED: underscore attribute names.

 two_colons=::

 two_semicolons=;;

+# Left and right single and double quote characters.

+lsq=‘

+rsq=’

+ldq=“

+rdq=”

 

 [titles]

 subs=specialcharacters,quotes,replacements,macros,attributes,replacements2

diff --git a/doc/asciidoc.txt b/doc/asciidoc.txt
index eba92ca..a0f8345 100644
--- a/doc/asciidoc.txt
+++ b/doc/asciidoc.txt
@@ -4131,12 +4131,11 @@ predefined intrinsic attributes:
   {basebackend-<base>}  empty string ''
   {basebackend}         html or docbook
   {brvbar}              broken vertical bar (|) character
-  {revdate}             document revision date (from document header)
   {docdate}             document last modified date
-  {doctime}             document last modified time
-  {docname}             document file name without extension (note 6)
-  {docfile}             document file name  (note 5)
   {docdir}              document input directory name  (note 5)
+  {docfile}             document file name  (note 5)
+  {docname}             document file name without extension (note 6)
+  {doctime}             document last modified time
   {doctitle}            document title (from document header)
   {doctype-<doctype>}   empty string ''
   {doctype}             document type specified by `-d` option
@@ -4151,10 +4150,12 @@ predefined intrinsic attributes:
   {indir}               input file directory name (note 2,5)
   {infile}              input file name (note 2,5)
   {lastname}            author last name (from document header)
+  {ldq}                 Left double quote character (note 7)
   {level}               title level 1..4 (in section titles)
   {listindex}           the list index (1..) of the most recent list item
   {localdate}           the current date
   {localtime}           the current time
+  {lsq}                 Left single quote character (note 7)
   {lt}                  less than (<) character entity
   {manname}             manpage name (defined in NAME section)
   {manpurpose}          manpage (defined in NAME section)
@@ -4165,8 +4166,11 @@ predefined intrinsic attributes:
   {notitle}             do not display the document title
   {outdir}              document output directory name (note 2)
   {outfile}             output file name (note 2)
+  {rdq}                 Right double quote character (note 7)
   {reftext}             running block xreflabel generated by BlockId elements
+  {revdate}             document revision date (from document header)
   {revnumber}           document revision number (from document header)
+  {rsq}                 Right single quote character (note 7)
   {sectnum}             formatted section number (in section titles)
   {showcomments}        send comment lines to the output
   {title}               section title (in titled elements)
@@ -4180,14 +4184,11 @@ predefined intrinsic attributes:
 ======
 1. Intrinsic attributes are global so avoid defining custom attributes
    with the same names.
-
 2. `{outfile}`, `{outdir}`, `{infile}`, `{indir}` attributes are
    effectively read-only (you can set them but it won't affect the
    input or output file paths).
-
 3.  See also the <<X88,Backend Attributes>> section for attributes
     that relate to AsciiDoc XHTML file generation.
-
 4. The entries that translate to blank strings are designed to be used
    for conditional text inclusion. You can also use the `ifdef`,
    `ifndef` and `endif` System macros for conditional inclusion.
@@ -4195,16 +4196,18 @@ predefined intrinsic attributes:
    differs from attribute conditional inclusion in that the former
    occurs when the file is read while the latter occurs when the
    contents are written.]
-
-5. `{docfile}` and `{docdir}` refer to root document specified on
-   the asciidoc(1) command-line; `{infile}` and `{indir}` refer to
-   the current input file which may be the root document or an
-   included file. When the input is being read from the standard
-   input (`stdin`) these attributes are undefined.
-
+5. `{docfile}` and `{docdir}` refer to root document specified on the
+   asciidoc(1) command-line; `{infile}` and `{indir}` refer to the
+   current input file which may be the root document or an included
+   file. When the input is being read from the standard input
+   (`stdin`) these attributes are undefined.
 6. If the input file is the standard input and the output file is not
    the standard output then `{docname}` is the output file name sans
    file extension.
+7. See
+   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_marks[non-English
+   usage of quotation marks].
+
 ======
 
 
diff --git a/docbook45.conf b/docbook45.conf
index ec66834..f637e21 100644
--- a/docbook45.conf
+++ b/docbook45.conf
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ text=<simpara>|</simpara>
 emphasis=<emphasis>{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}</emphasis>

 strong=<emphasis role="strong">{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}</emphasis>

 monospaced=<literal>{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}</literal>

-singlequoted={amp}#8216;{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}{amp}#8217;

-doublequoted={amp}#8220;{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}{amp}#8221;

+singlequoted={lsq}{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}{rsq}

+doublequoted={ldq}{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}{rdq}

 unquoted={1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}

 subscript=<subscript>{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}</subscript>

 superscript=<superscript>{1?<phrase role="{1}">}|{1?</phrase>}</superscript>

diff --git a/html4.conf b/html4.conf
index 8f52aeb..cf1a135 100644
--- a/html4.conf
+++ b/html4.conf
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ text=<p>|</p>
 emphasis=<em>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</em>

 strong=<strong>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</strong>

 monospaced=<tt>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</tt>

-singlequoted={amp}#8216;{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{amp}#8217;

-doublequoted={amp}#8220;{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{amp}#8221;

+singlequoted={lsq}{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{rsq}

+doublequoted={ldq}{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{rdq}

 unquoted={1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}

 superscript=<sup>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</sup>

 subscript=<sub>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</sub>

diff --git a/lang-de.conf b/lang-de.conf
index a3ff367..cfa2d4c 100644
--- a/lang-de.conf
+++ b/lang-de.conf
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 #
 
 [attributes]
+# Left and right single and double quote characters.
+lsq=&#8218;
+rsq=&#8216;
+ldq=&#8222;
+rdq=&#8220;
 # Captions, used by (X)HTML backends.
 # Captions on RHS are displayed in outputs.
 ifdef::basebackend-html[]
diff --git a/xhtml11.conf b/xhtml11.conf
index 5e74376..1103c95 100644
--- a/xhtml11.conf
+++ b/xhtml11.conf
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ text=<p>|</p>
 emphasis=<em>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</em>

 strong=<strong>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</strong>

 monospaced=<tt>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</tt>

-singlequoted={amp}#8216;{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{amp}#8217;

-doublequoted={amp}#8220;{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{amp}#8221;

+singlequoted={lsq}{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{rsq}

+doublequoted={ldq}{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}{rdq}

 unquoted={1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}

 superscript=<sup>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</sup>

 subscript=<sub>{1?<span class="{1}">}|{1?</span>}</sub>