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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: E. Rijkers <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:17 -0500
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"E. Rijkers" <[email protected]> writes:
>   Using the pdf version of the postgres manual I wonder if
> it wouldn't be better to replace single-quotes inside
> <programlisting> with &apos; (apostrophe).

Having to deal with entity-izing & and < is bad enough;
doing it for ' is something up with which I will not put.

> On the other hand, maybe this conversion of  ' to
> &apod;  should be built into the xslt processing (to leave
> the sgml more readable)?

That would be tolerable.

			regards, tom lane

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