Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:04:27 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: <trademark> tag in the docs Message-ID: <20000823190427.B254@parish> In-Reply-To: <84u2ccdlfn.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>; from kaj@raditex.se on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:52:28PM %2B0200 References: <20000820131444.C254@parish> <84u2ccdlfn.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:52:28PM +0200, Rasmus Kaj wrote:
> >>>>> "MO" == Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>
> MO> In the Programmers Tools tutorial there are several uses of the
> MO> <trademark> tag but it appears not to work:
>
> MO> <trademark>MS-DOS</trademark>
>
> MO> appears in the doc as:
>
> MO> MS-DOS&trade
>
> I'm assuming here that you're talking about generating HTML. Correct
> me if I'm wrong.
>
You are correct.
> That should work, if there is a non-character after. To make it work
> either way, a ';' should be appended.
>
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a "non-character", but if you
mean white space then that is what was there:
<filename>.cc</filename>, rather than the
<trademark>MS-DOS</trademark> style
<filename>.cpp</filename> (which was already used for
> In /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/html/dbhtml.dsl, it says:
> (("trademark")(make entity-ref name: "trade"))
> ... which sounds to me as if it should do a real entity reference,
> i.e. append a semicolon ...
>
I did try replacing the tag with ``™'' but it gave the same
result.
> If the problem is that ™ don't give the wanted symbol in some
> browsers, try ™ instead.
>
Hmm, but is that valid (style-wise, for FreeBSD docs)?
> MO> [ ... ]
>
> MO> Also, shouldn't we really acknowledge trademarks, either by using the
> MO> "(TM)" symbol with each instance [ ... ]
>
> This would be what happens now, right?
>
It was only in the Programming Guide; I couldn't find the trademark
tag used anywhere else although trademarked words are used.
Anyway, I changed (and committed) the Programmers Guide by removing
the tag so, although I believe we should use it, it now looks correct
in the HTML (Netscape) and is consistent with the rest of the docs.
>
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