- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 14:22:04 EST
- To: paul@arbortext.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Paul wrote:
> here are by far the 4 most used entity refs in your average Adept text
> document (not counting < and &)
I think this is useful.
> “, ” (left double quote and right double quote)
> —, –
None of these are in Latin 1 or the Adobe Symbol font (you can't substitute
the dash from Symbol for a GillSans-UltraBold dash anyway, of course).
But they are available on all major platforms, whth more or less effort
from developers.
But I agree that it would be good to include them.
Please don't specify the replacement text in the XML spec, though, but
only the UNICODE character and/or the intended glyph. For example, I
might want double quotes to come out 4 points larger than usual --
not uncommon in magazine or newspaper publishing -- and I won't be able
to do that in XML by altering the "standard, fixed" entities.
I can do it using new entities that themselves include the
old ones, of course:
<!Entity open-quote "<BIG>“</BIG>">
in systems that are sufficiently smart.
I don't understand the point of being so careful about prefixing
all XML names with -XML- earlier, and now suddenly deciding to add
several screens' worth of fixed keywords that are not so prefixed.
I sense a severe case of Rapidly Encroaching Deployment Elegant Architecture
Reduction Syndrome -- RED EARS :-)
Lee
Received on Sunday, 10 November 1996 14:23:21 UTC