I've long wished for an externally maintained translation
table to handle this allowing user's to add, delete or
modify what's converted.  Tony could then simply remove
the apostrophe conversion. 

My big /W issue is the inability to use both underline
and italics simultaneously.  If I use the underline version
of the DP executable and try to add italics by imbedding
the HTML codes (<i></i>), the greater than, less than
characters get converted to &gt; and &lt;.  Also, if I manual
insert an HTML character string like &#169; or &copy; (for the copyright
symbol), the apostrophes get converted.

A user defined translation table should support more than
single character strings so you could, as an example, convert
... (three periods) into an horizontal ellipsis or <i> into <i> (to
leave unmodified).

The release notes on the /W options state "characters above
128 are converted to the equivalent Latin character set
characters".  I may misunderstand this but an é (acute e)
entered as ALT+130 is not converted to an &eacute; (or
anything). 

As long as I'm wishing, I'd still love to see internal character
string support increase from 78 to at least 255 characters
.

Pat Riley



At 09:21 AM 9/18/2009, you wrote:
Hi Tony,

If you are using HTML bold tags then why would't you want the apostrophes
conforming?

Regards
Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Sent: Friday, 18 September 2009 8:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] ' (apostrophe) interpreted as &apos; by the /w
switch

Brian,

Thanks. A bit of a dilemma since by not using ;;w then you lose Dataperfect
bolding conversion.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Brian Hancock
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] ' (apostrophe) interpreted as &apos; by the /w
switch


Hi Tony,

That I believe is by design... The /w combined with the ;;w output switch
converts the standard XML  entity characters into their entity value so
& -> &amp;
< -> &lt;
> -> &gt;
' -> &apos;
" -> &quot;
If you do not want this conversion do not use the ;;w output indicator

Regards
Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Friday, 18 September 2009 6:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dataperf] ' (apostrophe) interpreted as &apos; by the /w switch


Hi everyone,

Can someone shed some light as to why this is happening and how to get
around it?

Thanks in advance

Ton

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