Re: Text representation of control characters?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 98/09/01 05:27 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
>Looking in style/charNames.h, I see that \space; is a text
>representation for  , but there appear to be no text
>representations for control characters below space.
>
>This means I have to resort to things like this:
>
>(let ((newline #\
>))
>
>which is really ugly.  Is there a better way?

For the one character in your example, there is a better SGML way: a
character reference to the record end function name (&#RE;).

............ Ken

T:\FTEMP>type test.sgm
<!DOCTYPE doc [
<!ELEMENT doc - O EMPTY >
]><doc>

T:\FTEMP>type test.dsl
<!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">

(element doc
    (let ((newline "&#RE;"))
        (literal (string-append "test" newline "line"))))

(default
    (process-children))

T:\FTEMP>jade -c p:\jade\jadecurr\catalog test.sgm

T:\FTEMP>type test.fot
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fot>
<a name="0"/>
<text>test
line</text>
</fot>

T:\FTEMP>


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