Bug 100441

Summary:	Change &emdash;&endash to —/– entities in GuideXML
Product:	[OLD] Docs-developer	Reporter:	Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED) <achumakov>
Component:	Guide XML	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-27 01:38:17 UTC

There was my proposal to add dash entities to guide.dtd etc.
I suggested (erroneously) two options to do that:
one was &emdash;, and the other was &mdash;
That was my mistake.

Right (and official) names are at http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/

Later on I found that &emdash or &endash is used rarely, but is confusing
instead: all of Xml Docbook/ Dita / XHTML / TEI etc use &mdash; and &ndash;
Xavier said it's irrelevant but it isn't: why introduce more chaos?
Anybody using it will have to remember: "Endash here, Ndash there, Mdash there,
Ndash here" :-)

Hopefully, nobody except myself had time to use that entities in real documents
at the moment!

PLEASE! Change &emdash to &mdash, and &endash to &ndash ASAP.
I'll then take care of forthcoming Russian docs.

I'll also found that characher entity declarations differ between DTDs where
they shouldn't. It is corrected, too.

Patch encosed.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-27 01:42:07 UTC

*** Bug 100442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-27 01:42:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100443 ***

Comment 3 Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-27 02:08:53 UTC

OK