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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook: system entities at end of sentence
How about leaving out the spaces before and after "GUI". <!ENTITY gui "<acronym>GUI</acronym>"> The spaces are not part of the acronym, are they? /A In <38E40C0D.2FFCF308@ctam.com.au> Brendan J Simon writes: > I have a system entity defined for some acronyms. > eg. <!entity gui "<acronym> GUI </acronym>"> > > How do I use this at the end of a sentence without having a space > between the entity name and the period ? > > The following does not work as "gui." is not defined. > <para> X-Windows is a &gui. <para> > > The following does work but leaves a space between GUI and the period. > <para> X-Windows is a &gui . <para> > > I think that defining another entity with a period at the end is not a > very elegant solution (if it is one at all). > ie. <!entity gui. "<acronym> GUI. </acronym>"> > > Thanks, > Brendan Simon. -- # Andreas Kähäri # Dept. of Info. Tech., Uppsala Univ., Sweden
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