On 20 Jul 2017, at 10:21, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 07/19/2017 02:32 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
This a much less confusing way to present the functionality (which is
very useful to those it matters):
~~ Character references: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* In addition to characters outside the encoding,
save the following characters as references:
[ … user’s list of characters … ]
* Always prefer entity references over numeric references.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Changed message from:
"Always save these characters as entity references:"
to:
"In addition to characters outside the encoding, save the following
characters as entity references:"
2) The text area containing the user-specified characters is now
grayed out when checkbox "Save characters outside encoding as entity
references" is unchecked.
The first change is of course perfect. :-) The second change, I am not
certain that I spot the difference compared with today - as it even
today is grayed out in that situation. Did you mean that you made it
grayer, e.g. by making the background grayer?
The way I see it, the error is to gray out that area at all. Consider
this: Neither DITA 1.3, XHTML 5 or DocBook 5.1 define entity references
for characters. (HTML 5 does define them, but not in a DTD.) But for the
users of those document types, the text-field still has an effect: The
characters it lists will - in the absence of DTD - be converted to
*numeric* character references. In the mind of such users, this feature
might, effectively, receive a changed interpretation - from a toggle
between entity references and numeric referenes - to a toggle between
operating with, or without, character references.
(And that is why my text tried to make it clear that it is about a
choice between the KIND of character reference.)
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leif halvard silli
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