RE: DAVENPORT: I Can't Write--Without My Em-Dash

["Jan Scheffczyk" <herta@Xterminator.StudFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de>]

-----Original Message-----
From: davenport@berkshire.net
[mailto:davenport@berkshire.net]On Behalf Of Bob Van Valzah
Sent: Montag, 9. August 1999 21:21
To: davenport@berkshire.net
Subject: DAVENPORT: I Can't Write--Without My Em-Dash

I'm using DocBook 3.1 with Norm's modular style sheets and Jade.

I've found that — will give me a real em-dash with the print back
end. However, there doesn't seem to be an — entity defined in the
HTML stylesheet--I just get my same old — showing up in the HTML.

Is this a bug or am I expected to define my own em-dash under some
circumstances?

As a work around, can I define it only when it's not already defined?
(Can you tell I'm a DocBook newbie?) Or do I just define it only for the
HTML stylesheet? I'd be appreciative if anybody has the necessary code
handy.

    Thanks,

    Bob

I don't think that it has something to do with the stylesheets or the DTD.
To me it are the ISO-Entities you are worrying about. Even if HTML 4
supports the entity — it does not IMHO the whole entity set of
docbook.

So I'm working on new entity sets which map the ISO entities to unicode
characters. You also have to write a little custom DTD which includes
docbook in order to have different entity sets for HTML and PRINT output.

But still many browsers do not support full unicode 2.1 :-(((. But I think
that it's probable that they will do in the future.

Jan Scheffczyk