Re: (dsssl) character repertoire?

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Ian Zimmerman <itz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, this is my first post here - be gentle.

Hi!  I'm newish too.

> In my first attempt at customization, I am trying to insert a literal
> backslash as part of the element content.  I don't know how to put a
> backslash into a string in DSSSL.

I've had success by entering search terms into the Google(tm)-brand
Internet Web search engine, as long as I include "DSSSL" as one of the
terms.

>  DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist

This time, I went to that mailing list URL, clicked "Searchable
Archive", and followed the link to
<http://www.biglist.com/lists/dssslist/archives/>.  My search there
for "backslash" wasn't too helpful per se, but in one of the hits,
"199910/msg00131:Re: Hopefully simple -- include a quote?", was

] I put together a list of the character names supported by Jade a
] while back by scanning the Jade source. It is available at
] ftp://ftp.bna.com/pub/dspeck/jade/charnames/ . There may be a few
] new characters in OpenJade.

I went to that site and looked at
<ftp://ftp.bna.com/pub/dspeck/jade/charnames/charnames.dsl>.
"Solidus" is a more formal name for a forward slash.  Also, the first
characters appear to be listed in that file in Latin-1 order, and I
have a chart for that, so I can figure out an unfamiliar name by the
recognizable characters around it.  I therefore think that
    \reverse-solidus
should work for you.

Also, I believe that &#-type entities are translated by Jade itself
when reading the DSSSL source file.  Therefore, I think
    &#92;
(the decimal code for "\") should also work.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@xxxxxxxxx; tmcd@xxxxxxxxxx is my work address

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