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To: "E. Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl>
cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes 
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Comments: In-reply-to "E. Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl>
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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:17 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"E. Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl> 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