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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: character entities for keycap symbols?
/ Sunthar.Visuvalingam@informit.com was heard to say: | Is there a set of character entities that represent keycap | symbols commonly used in computer books? In this instance, I'm | specifically looking for the Control Key Symbol of Apple MAC | Keyboard. Not that I know of. I've seen several "keycap" fonts, but I've never imagined representing these things with entities. I'd be more inclined to tweak my stylesheet so that <keycap> did the right thing (probably by selecting an appropriate keycap font :-). (Does Unicode have characters for these things? It shouldn't, IMHO, but that hasn't stopped them in the past :-) And if you want these things to work online as well as in print, you'd almost certainly have to turn them into graphics of some sort. But going directly from a font glyphs to graphics can be done fairly mechanically. | If such a set does not already exist, the DocBook activity | might be the best place to come up with a comprehensive list | of character entities to represent commonly used keycap | symbols. Egad! No! That's a job for the keyboard manufacturers, or some other group. It has only a peripheral bearing on DocBook, IMHO. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | First time surrealists are often http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | confused by the similarities Member, DocBook Editorial Board | between fish and telephones.
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