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Re: Re: Abbreviations and Ordinals
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Abbreviations and Ordinals
- From: Marco Kuhlmann <lists at picoli dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:25:46 +0000
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- Reply-to: Marco Kuhlmann <marco dot kuhlmann at gmx dot net>
Norman Walsh wrote (2001-11-09 (16:31)):
> | 2. In German typography, ordinal numbers are indicated by a
> | period after the corresponding cardinal number. Normally,
> | you would want to have a smaller space after this period
> | than after a period terminating a sentence. In TeX, you can
> | achieve this by appending a backslash to the ordinal period.
> | How would one cater for this using DocBook?
>
>  , probably.
No. After ordinals, you want a normal space, not  .
A thin space is what you want within abbreviations like
e. g. and i. e., but not at the end of
abbreviations or after ordinals. Abbreviations I can treat with
<abbrev> and a proper style sheet, while for ordinals, there is
no obvious mechanism in DocBook.
I now defined an entity ˙ that I use after ordinals or
within abbreviations, like e˙ g˙. However, a
more general solution seems to be desirable to me.
Cheers,
Marco
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Marco Kuhlmann marco.kuhlmann@gmx.net
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