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Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "E. Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
  • Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes
  • Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:17 -0500
  • Message-id: <19472.1199069897@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

"E. Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
>   Using the pdf version of the postgres manual I wonder if
> it wouldn't be better to replace single-quotes inside
> <programlisting> with &apos; (apostrophe).

Having to deal with entity-izing & and < is bad enough;
doing it for ' is something up with which I will not put.

> On the other hand, maybe this conversion of  ' to
> &apod;  should be built into the xslt processing (to leave
> the sgml more readable)?

That would be tolerable.

			regards, tom lane



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