Re: read-entity, is there any example or use explication?

[Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3 Sep 1998 10:40 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
 > Check.  If "&#RE;" is the newline as a string, what's the newline as a
 > character?

Eliot provided that: #\&#RE;

See section 8.5.8 of the DSSSL standard.

You know this already, but outside of strings, characters are written
as "#\" followed by either the character itself or the character name.
By the time the DSSSL engine sees it, #\&#RE; is "#\" followed by a
CARRIAGE RETURN character (provided that's what the SGML Declaration
says to use for the RE function).

Jade maps many character names to characters but, as you noted
previously, it doesn't support #\carriage-return.  With 38,885 in
Unicode 2.0, it's not surprising that there's holes.

You can also use #\U-000D (as noted by David Pawson), or #\
 (if
you really don't trust your SGML Declaration to use CARRIAGE RETURN
for the RE function).

Regards,


Tony Graham
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