Re: latex bibliographies with multiple databases

David Nebauer <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> > 4) SGML/XML output (bibliographies, db31/tei/html backends)
> > "<>&" are replaced with their corresponding entities. In addition, the
> > current code contains replacements for &mdash; &lsquo; and &rsquo;. I
> > know that I was asked to add these, but I can't remember the
> > context. I wonder whether it would make more sense to keep these
> > characters as Unicode.
> >
>
> I fear I may have partly the cause.  I was using refdb purely for
> docbook and since I didn't use UTF-8 encoding for my references the only
> way to preserve characters like em dash was to protect them as entities
> throughout the reference's life cycle.  They were not only protected
> during output, as you mention above, but were protected at input also.
> In moving to a more sensible unicode-based system, however, it no longer
> makes any sense to replace those characters with entities.

I see. Then I'll remove these entities again.

> > 5) LaTeX output
> > There are currently no attempts to escape LaTeX command
> > characters. I'm about to add this code.
> >
>
> I see this code arrived today.

Yes. I didn't get round to announce it, but please give it a real-world test to
see whether it works ok.

> Many unicode characters (and certainly all the commonly used ones) are
> entered by means of digraphs (using two or more keystrokes to specify
> one character).  The mnemonics for these are fairly intuitive, like 'a:'
> for a-umlaut.  Any unicode character can be entered with 'Ctrl-v uxxxx'
> where 'xxxx' is the character code.

Is there a link to some doc that explains this, by any chance? I thought about
adding something like a tip box to the docs that briefly explains how to deal
with Unicode characters for the most popular editors. I'd like to add URLs for
further information.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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