- From: Dennis Kowallek <kowallek@iglou.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:14:44 -0500
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:48:21 -0000, "Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >On 1 March 2010 at 6:59, Dennis Kowallek said: > >> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:20:42 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> >> wrote: >> >> >>I am running tidy.exe for windows dated 22 March 2008. >> >> >> >>I have "fix-bad-comments: no" in the cfg file. But tidy converts "--" in >> >>comments to "-=". >> >> >> >>I would like tidy to leave these alone. What am I doing wrong? >[...] >> The reason I asked is that these comments actually contain valid HTML that >> I may wish to uncomment in the future. I would prefer that tidy did not >> muck with this. > >The only source of difficulty I can think of would be existing comments >which you now want to embed in a larger commented-out block. The closing >marker will cause problems anyway, so you are almost certainly better off >letting Tidy do its thing. > >Would you care to show an example or two, in case anyone has bright >ideas? I actually have some HTML text (a transcription of a letter) that contains... <p>To be sure, a little more care in spelling would not be amiss -- The Post Master at Lancaster made a mistake also by marking it Sept. 23 – instead of August – what is the matter with the folks in Lancaster – they had better go to school to Mr Carter -</p> I have this commented out temporarily. When I send it thru tidy it converts the "--" to "-=". Like I said, I am working around it by sending the files thru a script AFTER running tidy that converts "-=" back to "--". I know I can convert all these double hyphens to - or en or em dashes. That may be a better solution. Thanks for your comments... -- Dennis
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