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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook: system entities at end of sentence


>>>>> "BS" == Brendan J Simon <Brendan.Simon@ctam.com.au> writes:

BS> I have a system entity defined for some acronyms.  eg. <!entity
BS> gui "<acronym> GUI </acronym>">

BS> How do I use this at the end of a sentence without having a space
BS> between the entity name and the period ?

BS> The following does not work as "gui." is not defined.  <para>
BS> X-Windows is a &gui. <para>

IIRC, when you reference a text entity, you should use a semicolon
after the entity name, like so:

<para> X-Windows is a &gui;. <para>

This works for me in SGML and XML.

Alex
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