Re: Experimental HTML DTD with OBJECT, style, ...

At 2:30p -0700 07/10/96, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>> In collaboration with some of our member organizations, Dave
>> Raggett has collected some of the DTD fragments in various proposals
>> into a DTD for testing purposes.
>
>Bravo!  It's good to have some idea of the direction of HTML
>before we have to deal with it in situ.  One immediate comment,
>though, about character entities:
>
><!ENTITY emdash CDATA "&#8212;" -- em dash               -->
><!ENTITY endash CDATA "&#8211;" -- en dash               -->
>
>Great, but you're still missing the quotation marks.
>I suggest:
>
><!ENTITY lsquot CDATA "&#8216;" -- left single quote     -->
><!ENTITY rsquot CDATA "&#8217;" -- right single quote    -->
><!ENTITY ldquot CDATA "&#8220;" -- left double quote     -->
><!ENTITY rdquot CDATA "&#8221;" -- right double quote    -->


I have a selection of "special characters" at the bottom of my
"HTML Document Character Set" lookup table:

   <http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charset.html>

It's a lot faster than scanning the entire Unicode list for 'em
(which I had to do to find them, so now you don't have to). ;-)

-Walter

__________________________________________________________________________
    Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>     Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
          Mountain View, CA                         ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
 http://www.natural-innovations.com/     Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 1996 23:54:17 UTC