This patch replaces --- with mdash; in the documentation, which is
the proper SGML character entity for an emdash.
Barring any objections, I'll apply this to HEAD before the end of the
day.
-Neil
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 01:35 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Is . --- really correct? I think there should be no period there.
Good catch -- I'll rephrase that text.
^^
Hey, this should have been a proper em-dash too
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:27:39AM +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
--- doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml
+++ doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
in memory when they are loaded by the executable. (Object files
intended for executables are usually not compiled that way.) The
command to link
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 01:35 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Is . --- really correct? I think there should be no period there.
Good catch -- I'll rephrase that text.
-Neil
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On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:27 +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
This patch replaces --- with mdash; in the documentation, which is
the proper SGML character entity for an emdash.
Patch applied. I also fixed up cases where -- was used in a similar
fashion (-- might be considered an en dash, but AFAIK it
On Nov 15, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Neil Conway wrote:
(-- might be considered an en dash, but AFAIK it is incorrect
to use an en dash to designate a parenthetical comment anyway).
Then again, wouldn't parentheses be the appropriate punctuation for a
parenthetical comment? :P
Michael Glaesemann
grzm
