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On 2013-12-02 11:38, Peter Davis wrote:
> I've now changed ox-html.el to include this:
> 
> (defun org-html-checkbox (checkbox)
> "Format CHECKBOX into HTML."
> (case checkbox (on "&#9746;")
> (off "&#9744;")
> (trans "&#9745;")
> (t "")))
> 
> 
> This is sort of close to using
> [ ] for unchecked
> [/] for partially checked
> [X] for checked
> 
> To my aging eyes, the check in U#9745 looks almost like a forward
> slash. Certainly, though, this would be potentially confusing,
> especially if no [X] boxes were present, so that only [ ] or [/] were
> visible.

Right. I am going to make this a configurable option in ox-html,
although consensus is that trying to emulate the partial checkbox
([-]) w/ other unicode symbols is too confusing, so we will simply use
an empty ballot box.

rick