On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Willi Mann wrote: > Thanks for looking at this bug. It seems we are getting close to zero > bugs for the debian package, since the next upstream version will have > working latex output again and fix the last remaining bug.
Great news. > > 0.21.2-2 does indeed fix the closing comment tag, but it does still > > have "--" within the comment, which is potentially problematic. I > > won't go into the gory details, but W3 note that: > > > > "Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside > > comments." > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 > > > > It seems in practice it doesn't cause problems with the browsers I > > checked, so I think leaving this bug closed is appropriate as > > unrtf's output no longer causes the body of the document to appear > > as a comment. > > Since it is "should" but not "must", a fully conforming HTML parser > should be able to deal with the hyphens. Sadly it's not quite that simple. There's a reasonable summary of the history here: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/SGMLComments.html > However, fixing this is trivial. Dave, can we fix this in 0.21.3, > please? There's another bug in this area - if the \author in the RTF includes "-->" then that gets copied across verbatim into the HTML, and you get something like this in the output: <!-- author: foo-->bar --> It would be more useful to map \author to a meta tag instead of a comment (since then it's automatically available to other tools), and then doing HTML entity encoding avoids such problems: <meta name="author" content="foo-->bar"> Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
