Re: [O] In-line code, italics, quotation marks, etc.

[John Hendy]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Peter Davis <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying to create an org page that contains a list of instructions, some 
> of this include code and/or URLs. I'm having a dickens of a time trying to 
> get this to format correctly,
> and the documentation isn't much help. For example:
>
>  - I want to have a numbered list with some of the steps being or containing 
> code, in monospaced text:
>
>      7) =something "abc"=
>
>    However, the second quote seems to prevent the =...= notation from being 
> recognized.

Perhaps annoying, but 0 width spaces have been used in the past (found
by googling "verbatim quotes orgmode"
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-04/msg00332.html

Not sure if those still work, as null characters were suggested here
as well, but then cited to possibly break export?
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52575

What's the export backend? Sometimes I just deal with manually
inserting \(\verbatim{someting "abc"}\) (or not using \(\) if you have
tex:t latex:t in #+options).

>
>  - I want a URL that does NOT get converted to a link, and in which I can 
> place italics to indicate that parts of the sample URL should be replaced 
> with other text:
>    http://localhost:<port number>/path/to/file/file.html
>    In this case, "port number" and probably "/path/to/file/" should be 
> italicized.
>

Not sure what others will say, but I typically rely on raw backend
syntax for situations like these. Seems too hard to escape the parsing
while also imparting your own markup, but I could be wrong!

>  - Of course, combining these, I get situations like:
>    =var str1 = "<replace me> some other text."=
>    Embedded equal signs, quotation marks and emphasized text make this a 
> nightmare.

Same suggestion. Hopefully you don't have an insane number of these or
aren't using a bunch of export engines. If it's limited to one and you
have, say, a handful of them... hopefully just going raw export
language could work?

>
> Can this be done, or is this just more complicated than org was designed to 
> handle? I can, of course, edit the exported files, but that's pretty limiting.
>

Nicolas could explain much better, but from my perusing Google results
for you, it didn't seem promising. There are instances of folks
tweaking their parsing string:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/20915/focus=20922
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16443386/how-to-escape-double-quote


John


> Thanks,
> -pd
>
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