Re: cross manual references in html manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:40 +0200
> From: Dumas Patrice <address@hidden>
>  
> > So in that case, to support xhtml, I guess we have to do what you
> > suggest, and escape everything with _'s, as in _7e_22_23.  It is ugly
> > and silly, but the alternatives I see are to not support XHTML (probably
> > not realistic, long term), or to have different xref rules for HTML and
> > XHTML (sounds even uglier).
> 
> It seems to me that xhtml should be supported in the long term as it is an
> interesting format which can be easily extended.
> And using _ instead of % isn't that much worse. The advantage of % was that
> browser could interpret the escaped sequences.

We should, of course, escape the literal `_' (as _5f, probably) if we
decide to go this way.