From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 23 11: 4:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E5D37B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.87.36]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000823190340.ZICE3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:03:40 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01707; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:04:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:04:27 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Rasmus Kaj Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tag in the docs Message-ID: <20000823190427.B254@parish> References: <20000820131444.C254@parish> <84u2ccdlfn.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <84u2ccdlfn.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>; from kaj@raditex.se on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:52:28PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:52:28PM +0200, Rasmus Kaj wrote: > >>>>> "MO" == Mark Ovens writes: > > MO> In the Programmers Tools tutorial there are several uses of the > MO> tag but it appears not to work: > > MO> MS-DOS > > 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: .cc, rather than the MS-DOS style .cpp (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. > > -- > Rasmus Kaj -------------------- rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~kaj/ > \ Time is an illusion; lunchtime--doubly so. -Ford Prefect > \------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex.se/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message