Re: Smart quotes via finite state machine

[onf]

Hi Deri,

On Tue Sep 24, 2024 at 1:27 AM CEST, Deri wrote:
> That's the path I followed. A script which takes the text file version from 
> the gutenberg site and produces an A5 pdf, via groff, example attached. Happy 
> to give you a copy of the script if you are interested.

That sounds (and looks) cool!

However, looking at the original of the book you shared, it seems it
includes the correct (opening/closing) quotation marks. My post was
mostly concerned with how to automatically substitute those in when
importing from sources which only use the "universal" ones (i.e. ").

As far as the importing itself is concerned, I have mostly relied
on lynx's -dump feature so far. It requires me to add the formatting
back in manually, but it seemed easier than writing (or adapting) an
HTML parser for this task. If you have anything better, I would be
quite happy to try it.

~ onf