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Re: Use of “ and ” (fwd)
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:34:52AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br> was heard to say:
> | > 2. Use <quote>phrase</quote> instead of “ and ”
> |
> | It's not a quotation. I'd like to represent the double quotes. For
> | some languages the quotation marks are represented in different forms
> | (<< instead of " for example).
>
> That's one point of <quote>...</quote>, it can use
> locale-specific quotation marks.
Ok... I've re-read the documentation. It does automatically what I was
doing by hand. :-)
> | > 3. Add <!ENTITY ldquo '"'> and <!ENTITY rdquo '"'> to your documents
> | > or a customized version of DocBook.
> |
> | That is, IMHO, the best approach. But, for TeX compatibility, I think
> | that <!entity ldquo "``"> and <!entity rdquo "''"> are the right
> | ones.
>
> Ok.
>
> | What about fixing it in DocBook by itself? At least for the HTML
> | version of DocBook.
>
> There's no HTML version of DocBook. Where are you suggesting
> that it be fixed?
I was speaking abou the HTML version of DocBook.dsl. But, I'll use
<quote> and </quote>. IMHO, it's a bug of mine... ;-)
Sorry and thanks,
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