Re: displaying dashes

[Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Bek Oberin <gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> For this case do I now use &dash;&dash; every place I had a 
> double-dash in the input?  I already have a .dtd file for this
> project so just drop in what you put?
> 
   Yep, you should be able to just drop in those declarations at an
appropriate location in your DTD.  And actually, you'd probably be
best off to just replace *every* dash with &dash;, unless it's being
used as a hyphen.

> Appologies for any dimwittedness on my part, it's late and I
> still haven't got a proper handly on this DocBook stuff.  It's
> COMPLICATED.
> 
   Agreed.  When you've got several pieces of software all trying to
do very complex things (such as trying to be real smart about things
like character sets and such), there are bound to be pitfalls all over
the place. :P

-Brandon :)


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