Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "E(dot) Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SGML docs and pdf single-quotes
Date: 2007-12-31 02:58:17
Message-ID: 19472.1199069897@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"E. Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)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

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