Re: Large numeric code in refentry pages

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh writes:
|  > As usual, cross platform/vendor browser issues are frustrating.
|  > In my stylesheets, I've used (literal "\em-dash;"), which Jade
|  > turns into a unicode character reference (&#8212;).
|  > 
|  > IE4 and NS4 both understand this reference, but I'd prefer to
|  > use an entity name. Unfortunately, NS4 doesn't recognize either
| 
| why don't you want to use &#8212;? since only computer programs will
| read this file, who cares if its full of gibberish? whats the
| advantage of an entity?

I was looking for something that worked in both NS 3 and IE 3.  &#8212;
doesn't work in "older versions" of NS, that's what started this thread.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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