I am with Ray on this. I suppose that if it is required, I can learn how to use character maps and type in U+398 for THETA. But it is a lot more readable to me as the author, who may have to edit the docbook source someday, to read Θ or \Theta or even &THgr; in the middle of a formula and confirm that the formula matches whatever reference I am checking against. Because reading 'U+398' in the middle of a text representation of a formula is pretty meaningless.
Is adding a character entity reference to Gnumeric.xml something easy or difficult? Yelp and xmllint seem to take it
well.
Louis
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:06:42 +0200
> From: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <
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> Subject: Re: Simulation Analysis in the User's guide - review needed
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> > rather than having to learn a system of XML entities and get the exact
> > same output from DocBook ?
> DocBook does not require the use of these XML entities, it simply allows
> their use.
> There are various reasons why an author may want to use them, like
not
> having an environment configured that allows for directly inputting
> characters, catering to the least common denominator editing environment
> (plain ASCII), or to disambiguate between characters that may have similar
> appearance (e.g. is "P" a capital "p" or a capital rho).
> HTH,
> Ray
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