Re: Manual buglet: broken double-quotes

[ds26@goldshoe.gte.com (Dorai Sitaram)]

In article <C69195DE-A26E-11D7-9E93-0003938644A4@web.de>,
RT Happe <rthappe@web.de> wrote:
>
>The html manual implements =93english double-quotes=94 as ``double =
>quotes''
>instead of "&ldquo;" and "&rdquo;" called for here.  (All browsers I
>used over the last years understand the sgml entity names, but historic
>engines may prefer the numeric character references "&#8220;" resp.
>"&#8221;")  Also, there are real "--" dashes "&mdash;" and "&ndash;"
>("#8212;" resp. "#8211;").
>
>rthappe
>
>[ Carbon-copied to tex2page author Dorai Sitaram.  I hope the BCC works
>   around address harvesters. ]
>

There is a global called *use-advanced-html-entities?*
which, if true, will enable tex2page to create the kind
of entities you listed -- nicer single and double
quotes, em- and en-dashes, plus some other
characters. 

By default, *use-advanced-html-entities?* is false,
because of least-common-denominator-itis.  But if
you are fairly sure that nobody will view the document
on a browser that doesn't support these entities, you
can put 

\eval{
(set! *use-advanced-html-entities?* #t)
}

in the <jobname>.t2p file.
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