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Re: e 2.71828
- From: Adam Turoff <ziggy at panix dot com>
- To: Jeff Rancier <jeff dot rancier at softechnics dot com>
- Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:41:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: e 2.71828
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:26:22PM -0400, Jeff Rancier wrote:
> Maybe just inserting a emphasis element in the phrase:
>
> <phrase><emphasis>e</emphasis></phrase>
I don't know about that. A good typesetting system (er, TeX) would want
to typeset e in a math font, not a simple italic font. That markup
loses the metadata that this isn't simply a letter 'e', but rather the
transendental number e.
Perhaps a role attribute could be added somewhere, so that you'd have
<phrase role="whatever">e</phrase>? It loses the mathematical markup
around e, but it sounds like you're not really putting an inlinequation
into your prose in the first place.
Just remember to update your stylesheets accordingly. :-)
Z.