Pro 2004: prevent tidy from changing “ -> &quo

[Bud]

I often use “ and ” for open and close quotes, respectively. When I invoke tidy, these are changed to simple quotes ( " ).

What setting do I need to change in tidy to have these left alone? I tried switching "quote-marks" on and off, but that doesn't work.

Thanks

[Karlis]

Actually I do not know, probably this is not possible at all. Tidy is a third party software (open source). I did not find anything on this in Tidy public docummentation.

Probably someone knows more about this?

[Bud]

In the previous version of HTMLPad, it would change “ to &ldquot;. Bad enough, but I could use search/replace to clean up before I uploaded. Now both “ and ” turns to regular quote ("), so there's no way to do a search/replace.

If you say it is something on Tidy, then I'll see if I can find out what the deal is and post it here.

Thanks.

[Karlis]

I am not very sure, but probably something can be done with Tidy options, to make it work at least like previous Tidy version. HTMLPad 2004 uses the latest Tidy.

If you find something out, please post it here.

[Bud]

Okay, after spending a while going through all the settings, I found the combo that makes the print look nice, validates well, and avoids the non-standard ” tags.

Turn the following on (all others off)

break-before-br
clean
doctype=auto
drop-empty-paras
drop-font-tags
drop-prorietary-attributes
enclose-block-text
enclose-text
fix-bad-comments
fix-uri
indent-cdata
join-classes
join-styles
logical-emphasis
lower-literals
ncr
numeric-entities
quote-nbsp
repeated-attributes: keep-last
word-2000
indent=auto
indent-spaces=2
markup
tab-size=2
wrap=75
wrap-asp
wrap-jste
wrap-php
wrap-sections
char-encoding=ascii
output-bom=auto
fix-backslash
keep-time
write-back

Obviously, not all of these have anything to do with the original problem of entites changing from " to " etc, but for those who want nicely-indented, correct html, these settings will do it for you.

Cheers