From: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: bzg@gnu.org, n.goaziou@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch][ox-html] Stylistic changes
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:35:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318003542.GB92601@eyeBook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3bs31u8.fsf@gmx.us>
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:19:27PM +0100, Rasmus wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 03:17:10AM +0100, Bastien wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > So if the change is only stylistic, I see no reason to break
> >> > compatibility with "ox-freemind.el".
> >
> >> I would favor a solution where the HTML backend uses what's
> >> readable (— and friends) and where the Freemind backend
> >> deals with this.
> >>
> >> Maybe `org-html-special-string-regexps' could be a variable
> >> and Freemind could temporarily set it up to what it needs?
> >
> > The use of numeric vs. named entities is not just stylistic.
> > XHMTL[45] only support the 5 basic named entities interally:
> >
> > - & - the ampersand &
> > - " - the double quote "
> > - ' single quote '
> > - < - less-than <
> > - > - greater-than >
> >
> > So including any others will generate non-conforming output.
> > Since the change is cosmetic, I don't see the purpose in adding a lot
> > of conditional code to the exporter to output different entities for
> > html[45] vs xhtml[45].
>
> AFAIK, we have a lot more entities in org-entities with &PRETTY-NAME;.
> When I've entities I've used a pretty name over a numeric value when I
> found one. What's you'r opinion on that? Should we go for readable
> or aim towards replacing them with these numeric values?
We should use only those named entities (above) which are valid in
xhtml(5). So, yes, we should change to using numeric entites for any
other than the above.
rick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-18 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-16 0:33 [patch][ox-html] Stylistic changes Rasmus
2014-03-16 9:59 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-03-16 13:06 ` Rasmus
2014-03-17 2:17 ` Bastien
2014-03-17 17:01 ` Rick Frankel
2014-03-17 22:19 ` Rasmus
2014-03-18 0:35 ` Rick Frankel [this message]
[not found] ` <874n2w2n62.fsf@gmx.us>
2014-03-18 13:49 ` Rick Frankel
2014-03-18 19:46 ` Rasmus
2014-03-19 14:00 ` Rick Frankel
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