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Re: DocBook: system entities at end of sentence


How about leaving out the spaces before and after "GUI".

<!ENTITY gui "<acronym>GUI</acronym>">

The spaces are not part of the acronym, are they?

/A

In <38E40C0D.2FFCF308@ctam.com.au> Brendan J Simon writes:
> I have a system entity defined for some acronyms.
> eg. <!entity gui "<acronym> GUI </acronym>">
> 
> How do I use this at the end of a sentence without having a space
> between the entity name and the period ?
> 
> The following does not work as "gui." is not defined.
> <para> X-Windows is a &gui. <para>
> 
> The following does work but leaves a space between GUI and the period.
> <para> X-Windows is a &gui . <para>
> 
> I think that defining another entity with a period at the end is not a
> very elegant solution (if it is one at all).
> ie. <!entity gui. "<acronym> GUI. </acronym>">
> 
> Thanks,
> Brendan Simon.

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# Andreas Kähäri
# Dept. of Info. Tech., Uppsala Univ., Sweden


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