Hi Thomas,
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> Some of the difficulties that I faced with simple documents was:
>>
>> 1. What is the xml equivalent of ||
>> 2. What is the xml equivalent of ~ ( ??)
>> 3. What is the xml equivalent of
>>
>> \abbreviation {EECS} {Electrical Engineering and Computer Science}
>> and then \EECS\ and \infull{EECS}.
>
> Hi Aditya,
>
> I've just begun experimenting with xlm (because, as Duncan has
> pointed out, I'm sure that every line I write is for eternity...).
> Anyway, what I say here may be totally wrong, but here's how I treat
> this stuff:
>
> 1. For || or |-|, I have defined an entity in my DTD:
>
> <!ENTITY conthyph "-">
>
> In my environment for processing the xml files, I have
>
> \defineXMLentity[conthyph]{|-|}
>
> so I can write context&conthyph;specific and get the output I expect.
>
> 2. Yes, I use with these definitions:
> <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
> \defineXMLentity[nbsp]{~}
Ah. Thanks. This was easy :)
> 3. Abbreviations: does xtag-ent.tex do what you want?
>
> Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it does appear to
> work for me.
Hmm... somehome I had missed xtag-ent.tex. I was looking at xml
introductions, and did not look into ConTeXt sources. I will have a
look and see how it goes.
Thanks,
Aditya
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