Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:00:45 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Entities for some instances (was: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml) Message-ID: <20020821170044.B1056@marduk.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20020821115929.GB81256@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:59:29PM %2B0300 References: <200208131114.g7DBEjVW065709@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020821115929.GB81256@hades.hell.gr>
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:59:29PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-08-13 04:14 +0000, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > Log: > > Explain how a partition can be more than 100% full. > > While I'm there: > > -stable/-STABLE, Windows-95 and Windows95 --> Windows 95 > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.463 +26 -3 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml > > I'd probably prefer &ms.win.95; that expands to something like: > > Microsoft Windows 95 Indeed it's a better solution. > > and similar entities that ensure that when our documents are typeset > and beautifuly printed on paper, there is absolutely *no* chance of > something like this appearing on paper (depending on existing margins > and paper size, of course): > > ... Microsoft Windows > 95 ... > > The &ms.*; entities could also include stuff like: > > &ms.dos.6; > &ms.office.97; > > But I'm very skeptical about introducing entities for stuff like this. > The main intention would be to make it easier to type consistently > something that looks prettier than "foo bar" and is not as hard > to remember. Does this sound crazy to anyone? Entities creation is maybe not needed for something not used "on every page", but the code is easier to read, and I think about people using many sgml codes: have a look to one sgml file of the french Handbook for example :))) It's a really nightmare :))) As you said entities have another benefit: the consistency between all docs. But I should *shut up* cause I forgot to use &os.current; and &os.stable; in a previous commit :) Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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