[PATCH 5/5] XFree86 Design doc: Convert LinuxDoc ``quotes'' to standard XML entities
Dan Nicholson
dbn.lists at gmail.com
Mon May 17 19:24:11 PDT 2010
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith
>> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>> hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>> 1 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> index e40a251..5b31cb0 100644
>>> --- a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> +++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ changes:
>>> </para>
>>>
>>> <para>
>>> - A &k.device; section is considered ``active'' if there is a reference
>>> + A &k.device; section is considered “active” if there is a reference
>>> to it in an active &k.screen; section.
>>
>> Why not use <quote> tags? That gives fancy left and right quotes
>> without using entities.
>
> Umm, because I'm used to html which doesn't have such tags I guess.
> Are those preferred over the direct entities? I can easily do a
> global replace.
I guess I'm used to docbook, so prefer to use the available elements
rather than character entities. See the Description section here for
why you might want to use <quote>:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/quote.html
--
Dan
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