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Bug 100442 - Change &emdash;&endash to —/– entities in GuideXML
Summary: Change &emdash;&endash to —/– entities in GuideXML
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100441
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-developer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Guide XML (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2005-07-27 01:38 UTC by Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-07-27 02:09 UTC (History)
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Description Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-27 01:38:18 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 —
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 — and –
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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100441 ***
Comment 2 Alexey Chumakov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-27 02:09:17 UTC
OK