RE: DocBook or sgmltool problems

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:brichardson@lineone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 12:38 PM
> To: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
> Subject: Re: DocBook or sgmltool problems
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:05:19PM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> > I ran into this as well. There is a DSSSL setting that needs
> > to be changed to get the behavior you want (at least this
> > resolved the issue for me) :
> > 
> > (declare-characteristic preserve-sdata?
> >   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::preserve-sdata?"
> >   #f)
> 
> That worked, thanks.  Question:  in trying to fix this, I 
> discovered that
> sgmltools made absolutely no objection if I just replaced the 
> &ldquo with "
> wherever it occured.  Doing that, it seems to me, would avoid 
> the problem no
> matter what someone's local setting for the above variable.  
> I have a hunch
> it would be bad practice though.  Right?

I use " for all my quotes, haven't had a need for tilde yet.
	Greg


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