- From: Fred L. Drake <fdrake@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:21:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
> That's what <Q> was for, but no browser implemented it. I'm not sure
> what you mean by "curly quotes"...do you mean the normal printer's
The Grail browser can support this using the file below; after
installing Grail, save this file as ~/.grail/html/q.py. It's simple,
but works quite handily.
-Fred
--
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake@cnri.reston.va.us
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191-5434
======================================================================
"""Simple implementation of the <Q> tag.
This needs a bit of elaboration to support multiple languages, but is
otherwise quite servicable.
"""
ATTRIBUTES_AS_KEYWORDS = 1
_quote_styles = (('``', "''"), ("`", "'"))
def start_q(parser, attrs):
qs, open, close = _fetch_info(parser)
parser.handle_data(open)
qs[1] = qs[1] + 1
def end_q(parser):
qs, open, close = _fetch_info(parser)
parser.handle_data(close)
qs[1] = max(0, qs[1] - 1)
def _fetch_info(parser):
if hasattr(parser, "_quote_info"):
qs = parser._quote_info
else:
qs = [_quote_styles, 0]
parser._quote_info = qs
styles = qs[0]
numstyles = len(styles)
open = styles[qs[1] % numstyles][0]
close = styles[(qs[1]-1) % numstyles][1]
return qs, open, close
#
# end of file
Received on Tuesday, 31 December 1996 16:28:15 UTC