Re: html do***entation shows strange "#" symbols

In article <4844F813.4060708@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Tim Hoffmann  <tim.hoffmann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Rahul wrote:
>> Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:g21u6n$l8k$01$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>> 
>>> That's supposed to read
>>>
>>>      Points drawn in splot ... pm3d|palette
>>>
>>> I.e. the '4#4' is a pipe symbol, '|'.  At least in the LaTeX source it
>>> is.  Looks like latex2html munged it.
>> 
>> Thanks Hans! Is that just me who is seening these strange symbols? The
html 
>> do***entation must be the primary source for a lot of people I assume.
I've 
>> been noticing the strange symbols for a long time but always assumed it
was 
>> something wrong with my browser.....
>> 
>
>No it's not just you. This issue was recently discussed in bugre****t 
>1928380. It really appears to be a problem of latex2html with escape 
>sequences and has to be cleaned up manually.

The HTML do***entation produced by texi->html  has its own problems,
but if you like it better you can find it at
   http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.3/gnuplot.html


>Could someone with access to the website please run sed on the 4.2 
>do***entation files and replace the #i#? I know these:
>#4# vertical bar &#124;
>#5# <	&lt;
>#6# >	&gt;
>Maybe #5# and #6# would better be translated as left and right angle 
>brackets &lang; and &rang;
>
>There may be more.
>
>Thanks,
>Tim


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Ethan A Merritt