Re: lynx-dev — vs —

[Leonid Pauzner]

23-Jan-99 23:41 address@hidden wrote:

>>     * Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: SINGLE-hyphen vs EM-dash vs "&151"?
>>     * From: address@hidden
>>     * Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:29:51 -0500 (EST)
>>     * In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> from
>>       "David Combs <address@hidden>" at Jan 23, 99 06:19:49 am
>>>
>>> At this addr, with this html:
>>>
>>> [10]http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/parrish3.html
>>> address@hidden
>>>
>>>
>>> their political will&#151;not to be confused with justice&#151;is done. 
>>> Unfor
>>tunately
>>>

Have a look at spaces.html and c1.html files from the lynx sources tree
under the test/ directory, I assume the original querry was:

let we set '--' as equivalent of &mdash; instead of '-'
which was in all previous versions of lynx, right?

>>>
>>> , it comes out as "political will-not to be confused with justice-is done".
>>>
>>> Whose fault?  Theirs (choosing 151) or lynx's (displaying it)?
>>>
>>> Of course, it SHOULD display (with proper english style) as
>>> "--" in lynx (preferably with surrounding spaces, making it easier
>>> to read in ascii-output).
>>
>>it SHOULD (but I thought about using em-dash a short while ago and found
>>that lynx isn't the only program that doesn't display it - iirc, IE 3 and
>>NS 4).  It'd be fine for Lynx to implement it though.
>>

> It is not clear what Lynx _should_ display for the invalid numeric
> entity reference &#151; I believe the correct numerical form
> for the &mdash; that you want is

> <!ENTITY mdash   CDATA "&#8212;" -- em dash, U+2014 ISOpub -->

> . I got this from HTML 4.0.

> I agree that better handling of &mdash; would be better.

> Al