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Re: lynx-dev — vs —
From: |
Leonid Pauzner |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev — vs — |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:44:43 +0300 (MSK) |
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—not to be confused with justice—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 — 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 — I believe the correct numerical form
> for the — that you want is
> <!ENTITY mdash CDATA "—" -- em dash, U+2014 ISOpub -->
> . I got this from HTML 4.0.
> I agree that better handling of — would be better.
> Al