Re: [Doxygen-develop] Additional HTML character entities (for Greek symbols, etc.)

[Petr P. <Pr...@sk...>]

Charles Karney wrote:
>
> My goal is to be able to include text such as
> 
>    φ %le; 30°
> 
> in my source code and have the generated HTML documentation resemble
> the TeX math: $\phi \le 30^\circ$.  I would prefer not to have to deal
> with UTF-8 characters in my source files; lots of things will start to go
> awry if I don't stick with plain old 7-bit ASCII in my source; also
> it's faster for me to touch type φ than to figure out how to
> generate the UTF-8.  (Oh and the generated HTML will just contain φ
> etc.)
> 
> There was already a mechanism for dealing with HTML entities and it was
> simple enough to expand this.  Here's the list I ended up implementing
> (I constrained myself to entities which appear correctly with the
> default fonts for Firefox, Konqueror, and Internet Explorer).

I see.  You should probably discuss that directly with Dimitri because
he is the one to accept/refuse the code.  He may know what the pitfalls
are.  It may be related to the other-format output generators (like 
the LaTeX one). 

Petr