From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 6 12:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E5237C1F8 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA76049; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:49:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:49:11 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The entity circ and others... Message-ID: <20000706184911.B31281@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200006302348.BAA85144@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006302348.BAA85144@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>; from gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:48:07AM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:48:07AM +0200, gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de wrote: > I recognized that in the HTML output of the FAQ an entity "circ" > (circumflex) is included that - as far as I found out - does not exist > in HTML up to 4.0. I've got a copy of the 2, 3.2, and 4.0 HTML DTDs here, and circ only appears in 4.0. > Is that correct? If yes, is it "missing" in HTML or is it "of limited > use" in docbook? It's not in the DocBook DTD explicitly, but the DTD includes the iso8879 characters, which does include it. > In the FAQ there are several questions that are actually not questions > but rather "statements" and therefore do not end with a question mark. > Instead, some of them end with a dot and some of them end with no > punctuation at all, what looks somewhat inconsistent to me. Are there > any suggestions on how to handle such "statements" in an consistent > way? Submit diffs that either reword statements as questions, or ensures that each statement has a terminating full stop. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message