- From: Marcus E. Hennecke <marcush@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:48:30 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org, davidp@earthlink.net
On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:24:34 -0700, David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net> wrote: > Bravo. I would, however, argue that reversing the order thusly: > > <!ENTITY quotesl CDATA "‘" -- left single quote --> > <!ENTITY quotesr CDATA "’" -- right single quote --> > <!ENTITY quotedl CDATA "“" -- left double quote --> > <!ENTITY quotedr CDATA "”" -- right double quote --> > > makes more sense as single, double, left and right are subsets of a > character type "quote". Nononono! Please stick to the SGML entities as Jim Taylor suggested: <!ENTITY lsquo CDATA "‘" -- left single quote --> <!ENTITY rsquo CDATA "’" -- right single quote --> <!ENTITY ldquo CDATA "“" -- left double quote --> <!ENTITY rdquo CDATA "”" -- right double quote --> > This also more closely resembles the standard > names of quotedblright, etc. Which standard would that be? Generally, entity names have tended to be short, usually less than 8 characters long. Let's stick to that, it saves typing (or are there other reasons for the 8 character limit?). Marcus -- Marcus E. Hennecke marcush@crc.ricoh.com http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~marcush/
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