From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-01-20T04:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth - unbeautifying quotes

Eli Bendersky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My question pertains to a popular Ruby library -  RedCloth (translator
> for Textile and Markdown to HTML). I hope this list is the proper
> place to ask the question, if not please accept my apologies and point
> me to the correct address.
>
> Well, I'm using RedCloth extensively to process the posts in my blog.
> I write them in a text file with Textile markup, and then run the
> 'redcloth' command line tool to generate HTML.
>
> I have a problem when writing postings with code. I enclose code in
> <pre> tags, and don't want RedCloth to process it. However, it does,
> and most annoyingly turns all my single quotes ' into "pretty" slanted
> quotes, which renders the code impossible to copy-paste and run.
>
> Any way to circumvent this trouble without digging in the guts of
> RedCloth ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eli
>   

I would suggest looking into SuperRedCloth instead 
(http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/redcloth/wiki/SuperRedCloth). It is in 
development and so still has quirks, but in my opinion is much better 
than the old RedCloth. I'm not sure how commandline processing works 
with it, however.

-Justin