[Doc-SIG] Substitutions, encoding results
David Goodger
goodger@python.org
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:04:22 -0500
David Priest wrote:
> My substitution file nears completion. I'll pass it on when I'm done.
Please do. I have just made substitutions case-sensitive but forgiving,
falling back to case-insensitive matches whenever necessary. Now
"|eacute|" and "|Eacute|" can have distinct definitions and references.
> So far using substition to insert characters by name more or less
> works. There are a few problems:
>
> 1) Some important Unicode characters can not be substituted.
Why not?
> 2) Substitutions can not be against non-white space. Thus you can not
> use a |sup3| substitution in your text. You also can not emphasize
> substitutions.
The recent addition of disappearing escaped whitespace should have
solved this one.
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