-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to know what are people using for there apostrophe in there > docbook document ? There are 4 contestants: > 1 ’ (curly on UTF-8 system) > 2 ’ > 3 ' > 4 ’ > > #3 is the fastest to type. #2 and #4 are ugly to read when editing the .xml > file using text file. How about solution #1 ?
№s 1, 2, and 4 are exactly the same. The XML parser will treat them identically (assuming the rsquo entity is defined correctly). While №s 2 and 4 are ugly to read, they are easy to type; further, № 2 is much easier to remember than № 4. № 1 is very hard to type for most people; I have the kind of brain that remembers character codes, and I don’t mind typing Ctrl-Shift-U 2 0 1 9 SPACE in order to enter it (in a GNOME system), or & ' 9 (in an RFC 1345 environment like Emacs), or Alt-0146 in Windows, but I really don’t expect anyone else to do that. Someday, someone will create an affordable, usable keyboard with proper punctuation on it... Until then, I recommend № 2. ~Chris - -- Chris Maden, text nerd <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ > “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” — H.P. Lovecraft GnuPG Fingerprint: C6E4 E2A9 C9F8 71AC 9724 CAA3 19F8 6677 0077 C319 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktdyuYACgkQGfhmdwB3wxmhtACeJ9hZ6uROPNMndSz012DAY1KP 5zEAoNtrg+jBN2STezZiILwyqkAt7blx =VrdC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
