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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Abbreviations and Ordinals
Norman Walsh wrote (2001-11-09 (16:31)): > | 2. In German typography, ordinal numbers are indicated by a > | period after the corresponding cardinal number. Normally, > | you would want to have a smaller space after this period > | than after a period terminating a sentence. In TeX, you can > | achieve this by appending a backslash to the ordinal period. > | How would one cater for this using DocBook? > >  , probably. No. After ordinals, you want a normal space, not  . A thin space is what you want within abbreviations like e. g. and i. e., but not at the end of abbreviations or after ordinals. Abbreviations I can treat with <abbrev> and a proper style sheet, while for ordinals, there is no obvious mechanism in DocBook. I now defined an entity ˙ that I use after ordinals or within abbreviations, like e˙ g˙. However, a more general solution seems to be desirable to me. Cheers, Marco -- Marco Kuhlmann marco.kuhlmann@gmx.net
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