Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 16:04:37 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turning on smartquotes for HTML output Message-ID: <427A27F5.3010505@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050505132411.GC6071@freebsdmall.com> References: <20050505132411.GC6071@freebsdmall.com>
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Murray Stokely wrote:
> I would like to use proper entities to generate smart quotes rather
> than relying on double ``ticks''. The following patch produces much
> nicer looking quotes in FireFox and Opera on FreeBSD. We didn't have
> this option many years ago when the quote element was first added to
> our stylesheets, but the smartquote entities are now well supported so
> we should use them. If there are no objections I'll commit the
> following patch.
>
> - Murray
>
> Index: release.dsl
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/doc/share/sgml/release.dsl,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -r1.8 release.dsl
> --- release.dsl 5 Sep 2004 13:50:38 -0000 1.8
> +++ release.dsl 5 May 2005 13:12:19 -0000
> @@ -117,9 +117,9 @@
> <!-- Convert " ... " to `` ... '' in the HTML output. -->
> (element quote
> (make sequence
> - (literal "``")
> + (literal "“")
> (process-children)
> - (literal "''")))
> + (literal "”")))
>
> <!-- Specify how to generate the man page link HREF -->
> (define ($create-refentry-xref-link$ #!optional (n (current-node)))
>
> Index: freebsd.dsl
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/freebsd.dsl,v
> retrieving revision 1.87
> diff -u -r1.87 freebsd.dsl
> --- freebsd.dsl 31 Dec 2004 22:34:52 -0000 1.87
> +++ freebsd.dsl 5 May 2005 13:13:04 -0000
> @@ -275,9 +275,9 @@
> <!-- Convert " ... " to `` ... '' in the HTML output. -->
> (element quote
> (make sequence
> - (literal "``")
> + (literal "“")
> (process-children)
> - (literal "''")))
> + (literal "”")))
>
> ;; The special FreeBSD version of the trademark tag handling.
> ;; This function was more or less taken from the DocBook DSSSL
i'd say: Go for it :)
--
Kind regards,
Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org
Reporter DSINET ** remko@DSINet.org
Founder Tienervaders ** remko@tienervaders.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project ** remko@FreeBSD.org
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