The worst part of AsciiDoc I think is its name.
It sounds so archaic.
It sounds so archaic.
I would like to imagine that in this day and age that isn't the case, but the name works against it.
[0] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/text/quotation-...
The lack of first-class support for balanced quotation marks seems to be a major problem for computers. I think a lot of computer code, particularly scripts, would be easier to read and less buggy if the languages had been designed by someone with balanced quotation marks on their keyboard.
As a thought experiment, imagine what Lisp would look like if '(' and ')' were the same character and you had to use the same work-arounds that shell scripts use for open quotation mark and close quotation mark being the same character. Instead of (a ((b c) d)) we'd write |a \|\\\|b c\\\| d\||. That's fine, right? We can live with that?
Perhaps we should think ourselves lucky that 0 and O are not the same character, and 1 and l, like they were on the first mechanical typewriters.
Mind you, there's one similar annoyance that predates typewriters and continues to plague us in Unicode: apostrophe and closing single quotation mark are logically quite different things, but they're the same character: ’
Why into .emacs and not into the global keyboard configuration? Don't you ever write text outside of emacs?
I have used xkbcomp to replace a character I don't need with one I do, but the recipe tends to require maintenance and I don't know how to program dead keys with that approach. Perhaps there's a better way nowadays.
For linux-portable keyboard configuration, you may find that an unholy mix of setxbmap (to set up the grand options) and xmodmap (to modify a few particular keys) is what works best for you. At least it does for me.
> sometimes I'm SSH-ing in from a machine that isn't even Linux.
ah! the horror!
If anyone else was a web dev in the 90s, you know what I’m talking about.
We've integrated it with PO4A[0] and CrowdIn.com to support a translation workflow, and so far have one document in Chinese: [1].
Another (tiny) example is [2] with an emoji star, you can "Edit this page" and see the Unicode source.
[1] https://docs.gbif.org/collections-idea-paper/zh/
[2] https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/data-hosting-centres#...
ASCII is so old that I picture ANSI colour blocks as it’s successor, and both of those are firmly in the “nightmarish text encoding days”