Quote tag handling

wholcomb · 02-20-2011, 12:51 PM

I have been trying to figure out how to port HTML quotes to a format that calibre will display properly.

I've been using <q> tags to handle correctly formatting smart quotes. The CSS that I am using is:

Code:

q:before { content: '\201C' }
q:after { content: '\201D' }
q.continued:after { content: '' }
q.single:before, q q:before { content: '\2018' }
q.single:after, q q:after { content: '\2019' }

In browsers this handles nested quotes (“I said, ‘go!’”) and removing the trailing quote on multi-paragraph quotes.

As best I can tell, Calibre doesn't process the :before and :after pseudo-elements. Is there a workaround possible?

kovidgoyal · 02-20-2011, 01:05 PM

calibre supports neither before, after nor content. So you can't use CSS to do this and IIRC the q tag is deprecated

jackie_w · 02-20-2011, 01:33 PM

@wholcomb,

Can't you just check the Smarten Punctuation feature in Convert - Look&Feel to make sure you get curly quotes?

02-20-2011, 12:51 PM	#1
wholcomb Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: kindle	Quote tag handling I have been trying to figure out how to port HTML quotes to a format that calibre will display properly. I've been using <q> tags to handle correctly formatting smart quotes. The CSS that I am using is: Code: q:before { content: '\201C' } q:after { content: '\201D' } q.continued:after { content: '' } q.single:before, q q:before { content: '\2018' } q.single:after, q q:after { content: '\2019' } In browsers this handles nested quotes (“I said, ‘go!’”) and removing the trailing quote on multi-paragraph quotes. As best I can tell, Calibre doesn't process the :before and :after pseudo-elements. Is there a workaround possible?

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02-20-2011, 01:05 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,627 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre supports neither before, after nor content. So you can't use CSS to do this and IIRC the q tag is deprecated

02-20-2011, 01:33 PM	#3
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,270 Karma: 16544702 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	@wholcomb, Can't you just check the Smarten Punctuation feature in Convert - Look&Feel to make sure you get curly quotes?

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