Re: CSS21 Syndata.html Section 4

David,

ok, now I see what you mean about the connection between \A and white-space.

I was thinking I might want the output to be data (perhap in a file) that was
going to be sent to a specific model printer.
I have no way of emitting U+000A, if that is what the device needs for an
escape sequence or line control.

It is perhaps not a large problem, if the device has its own escape mechanism
for specifying characters.



As for the text, I agree, but I would remove the parentheses as well since this
is actually the place defining that \A stands for newline.

To include a newline in a string, use the escape "\A" (hexadecimal A is the
line feed character in Unicode, but represents the generic notion of "newline"
in CSS).

to:

To include a newline in a string, use an escape representing the line feed
character in Unicode (U+000A), such as "\A"
or "\00000a". This character represents the generic notion of "newline" in CSS. 

Just a suggestion and I recognize you probably can't use the Unicode notation
without changing a number of other character references. For consistency I
guess you can replace 'U+000A' with 'character 10 in Unicode or "A" in
hexadecimal'

tex

"L. David Baron" wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 2003-10-15 19:47 -0400, Tex Texin wrote:
> > However, the example referenced in "content", has to do with generating text
> > and the output format generally does not have those grammatical rules, and in
> > fact may be destined for a media which there is a significant difference
> > between lf, nl, etc. (For example to a specific printer.)
> 
> I don't see how the destination medium is relevant.  The content
> generated by the 'content' property will be processed as described in
> section 16.6 [1], just like any other content.
> 
> > However, the questions about whether \a, \0A and \0a are equivalent to \A
> > should also be addressed.
> 
> I think they're definitely equivalent.  If anything suggests that they
> aren't, it should be fixed.  I guess that means we should change, in
> section 4.3.7 [2], the text
> 
>   use the escape "\A"
> 
> to be:
> 
>   use an escape such as "\A"
> 
> -David
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/text.html#white-space-prop
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/syndata.html#strings
> 
> --
> L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >

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