As an author, I want to be able to add non-standard characters to my text so that I can describe scientific and mathematical terms (Greek letters, maths symbols, shapes etc.)
But what if . . . ?
Consideration
What set of unicode special characters do we want to allow/support? Ideally we want to support all characters that scientific authors may use, but as there are variants of many of these (e.g. Greek characters), we should probably establish some rules for handling them.
eLife in principle allows pretty much everything, including Greek letters, maths characters and shape characters.
XML requirements
XML should be UTF-8 encoded. Where possible, numerical representation of characters should be used instead of named character entities, for example – should be used instead of –.
The following five characters may need to be escaped in the XML:
Description
Support for special characters in the text.
User stories
Author
But what if . . . ?
Consideration
XML requirements
XML should be UTF-8 encoded. Where possible, numerical representation of characters should be used instead of named character entities, for example
–should be used instead of–.The following five characters may need to be escaped in the XML:
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Proposal