On 07/21/2017 09:30 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
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?
On some Java platforms (Linux, Windows but not the Mac?), unlike what happens for single-line text fields, a "disabled"/non-editable multi-line text area is not automatically given a light-gray background.
The way I see it, the error is to gray out that area at all.
Yes, I certainly understand your point. However we have NOT implemented your RFEs. We just made what already exists a bit more explicit.
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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