Re: Simulation Analysis in the User's guide - review needed

[Adrian Custer <acuster gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 05:26 -0700, Louis Luangkesorn wrote:
> 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

Making an arbitrary decision, let's move the docs to docbook 4.5 so you
can define your pretty equations. We'll assume the rest of the world
will catch up with us eventually.

As for your entity references, it seems like they are already defined
within or by an extension to the docbook system. If you can get it to
work, we'll live with what you did for now. I agree that Θ is more
readable that the unicode point.

--adrian