[PATCH 5/5] XFree86 Design doc: Convert LinuxDoc ``quotes'' to standard XML entities

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith
>> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>>  hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml |   90 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>>  1 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> index e40a251..5b31cb0 100644
>>> --- a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> +++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.xml
>>> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ changes:
>>>       </para>
>>>
>>>       <para>
>>> -    A &k.device; section is considered ``active'' if there is a reference
>>> +    A &k.device; section is considered &ldquo;active&rdquo; if there is a reference
>>>     to it in an active &k.screen; section.
>>
>> Why not use <quote> tags? That gives fancy left and right quotes
>> without using entities.
>
> Umm, because I'm used to html which doesn't have such tags I guess.
> Are those preferred over the direct entities?   I can easily do a
> global replace.

I guess I'm used to docbook, so prefer to use the available elements
rather than character entities. See the Description section here for
why you might want to use <quote>:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/quote.html

--
Dan