Re: annoying `note' warnings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alper Ersoy <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 11:34:00 +0300
> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>,
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> > I agree.  Silent changes behind authors' backs are BAD.
> 
> Well, not totally silent though.

??? The suggestion was to make it silent.

> This is what happens with web browsers and HTML.  Documents are converted to 
> proper formats internally if there is a problem with the markup.  This is to 
> protect the readability of the document against the author's misuse of the 
> markup language.

This is not the same situation.  It is one thing to escape-protect
special characters so that the results looks as the author intended.
And it's quite another thing to change the text (as opposed to its
markup).