Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?

["Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>]

Hi Michael,

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:33:40PM +0900, Michael Smith wrote:

> The named character references issue is actually a different problem
> from what you mention in your original posting, right? I kind of
> think the character reference issue is something that's solve-able
> at the editing-application layer and IMHO doesn't require any of the
> solutions that have been proposed.

Yes, I was originally asking about macro-like text substitution.

> I mean, if you're already using Emacs/nXML and/or Norm Walsh's "XML
> Unicode" package, I think you've probably found that you've got a
> pretty easy to use way to enter and view special characters while
> you're editing.

Yes, I only found Norm's xmlunicode.el earlier this week.  Again, this
is not DocBook-specific, but I do a lot of work over SSH, using emacs
in console mode on the Windows SSH client from SSH.com.  I get special
characters displayed as '?'---is this likely to be a font issue on the
Windows side?


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Paul.

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