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)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Simulation Analysis in the User's guide - review needed > To: gnumeric-list@gnome.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > <snip> > > 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 > -- > Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, > on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go > where no data has gone before.
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