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Re: Re: Abbreviations and Ordinals
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Abbreviations and Ordinals
- From: ydirson at alcove dot fr
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:22:22 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:31:13PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> | 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.
Hm... in TeX, doesn't "\ " give a normal space ? Additionally, I
guess such things would better be done by the stylesheet, although I
can't think straightforwardly of an existing piece of markup for this.
Maybe something like `<phrase role="ordinal">6</>' that would be
rendered into "6. ", but that looks like overkill.
Or maybe the stylesheets could parse the text, and interpret stings
like "6. " as ordinals, and correct things appropriately ? I don't
think that'd be good...
Maybe we should have some markup for those things that must have
special formatting. An <ordinal> tag ?
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