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Bug 11497

Summary: Bad TeX output (double-hyphens)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component: openjadeAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-05-18 08:23:58 UTC 
The following produces an ndash rather than two hyphens, using db2ps:

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN"[]>
<para>
 <programlisting>
  <![CDATA[count--;]]>
 </programlisting>
</para>

The work-around that I'm using is this:

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN"[]>
<para>
 <programlisting>
  <![CDATA[count]]>&mdash;<![CDATA[;]]>
 </programlisting>
</para>

(Obviously it can be done more simply for this small example)

This is a bug in jade since it puts '--' in the TeX output, which of course
is TeX speak for ndash.  It doesn't seem reasonable to do this when in
<programlisting><![CDATA[[...]]></> tags. (I don't fully understand why
&mdash; comes out as two dashes rather than an mdash, either, but at least
it gives me a work-around..)
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-12-08 15:00:52 UTC 
*** Bug 21831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-04-10 10:00:58 UTC 
See also:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102115&aid=216421&group_id=2115
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-06-20 10:39:04 UTC 
Fixed in openjade-1.3-17.