On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:31:13PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > | 2. In German typography, ordinal numbers are indicated by a > | period after the corresponding cardinal number. Normally, > | you would want to have a smaller space after this period > | than after a period terminating a sentence. In TeX, you can > | achieve this by appending a backslash to the ordinal period. > | How would one cater for this using DocBook? > >  , probably.
Hm... in TeX, doesn't "\ " give a normal space ? Additionally, I guess such things would better be done by the stylesheet, although I can't think straightforwardly of an existing piece of markup for this. Maybe something like `<phrase role="ordinal">6</>' that would be rendered into "6. ", but that looks like overkill. Or maybe the stylesheets could parse the text, and interpret stings like "6. " as ordinals, and correct things appropriately ? I don't think that'd be good... Maybe we should have some markup for those things that must have special formatting. An <ordinal> tag ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ing�nieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
