symbol rendering difference between HTML and PDF

[C. Michael Pilato]

We should probably stop using entities and use real UTF8 characters anyway
(like O'Reilly expects in their sources).  I've got a symbol conversion
table in our HACKING file, but want to avoid sweeping changes right now.

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> The character is supposed to be a minus symbol -- − in docbook,
> I believe.  Yet somehow the XSLT transformation to both HTML and
> .PO/PDF is messing up on that entity tag?  Eesh.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>  probably an artifact of the PDF generation, but the online HTML
>> of the nightly build here:
>>
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.changesets
>>
>> reads (correctly):  "if you compare tree N with tree N?1"
>>
>> while the online PDF reads: "if you compare tree N with tree N#1"
>>
>>  is this an issue with the PDF generation?  or my browser?  or what?  just
>> curious.
>>
>> rday
>>
>>
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