Re: wrong rendering of certain HTML entities

On 3 Nov 2008, at 12:41, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>> Just wondering... what about using UTF-8 everywhere instead of the
>> entities? That might work.
>>
>> I of course know that it is a royal pain to copy paste UTF  
>> characters,
>> but it would make us independent of possible browser problems
>
> We could also use entities on the wiki and unicode in the TRs.  In  
> fact,
> the tool chain goes to unicode (since it works with the text in DOM
> form) and back to entities at the end.  I decided to use entities  
> in the
> TR to keep the html-diff between the TR and wiki clean.
>
> This is somewhat related to the notion that we should have PDF version
> of these documents.  That would give IE<8 users another option. If
> anyone really knows how to generate them, that'd be great.  (I'm  
> not up
> to speed on the current tools there.  The last one I used was pre- 
> CSS.)

PrinceXML does wonders. I have some students working with it now on  
generating nice pdf from S5 presentations. It has good, page oriented  
CSS support.

Cheers,
Bijan.