Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:38:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: asami@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook contrib.sgml Message-ID: <199703070638.WAA19288@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970302114020.18125C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Mar 2, 97 11:49:36 am
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John Fieber wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > Add Marc Slemko (marcs@znep.com) for his gopher patch. While I'm > > here, add ">" to the end of Marc Ramirez (mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu)'s > > e-mail address. > > SGML tip of the day... > > The way SGML parsing works, a > should never actually be > needed as a replacement for >, as it will only be recognized as a > tag delimiter while reading something that has already been > identified as a tag. Similarly, a < only needs to be replaced by > a < if immediately followed by a !, /, or [a-zA-Z]. (And & > only needs to be escaped as & if followed by [a-zA-Z].) > [...] > (And it never hurts to use <, > and & in the handbook.) Take a look at handbook.ascii. It looks like all of those < and >'s aren't being converted properly. They come out like: Contributed by Mike Pritchard [lt ]mpp@FreeBSD.ORG[gt ]. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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