From: | "E(dot) Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
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To: | pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | SGML docs and pdf single-quotes |
Date: | 2007-12-31 02:40:08 |
Message-ID: | 6368.156.83.0.77.1199068808.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl |
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Hi all,
Using the pdf version of the postgres manual I wonder if
it wouldn't be better to replace single-quotes inside
<programlisting> with ' (apostrophe).
There are two advantages:
1. it makes it possible to copy-and-paste examples from
the pdf file.
2. it prevents running together of two (or more)
single-quotes into a single double-quote.
Both problems occur only in pdf, not in html.
A disadvantage is that sgml source files become less
human-readable.
I compiled such a converted pdf with the attached perl
program.
The perl program can easily be made to generate the diffs
for all sgml files; I'll do that if it is considered
useful. On the other hand, maybe this conversion of ' to
&apod; should be built into the xslt processing (to leave
the sgml more readable)?
Erik Rijkers
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