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Attribute Inherited from Preferences?
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boolean [other boolean-type attributes]
true
HTML [other HTML Group attributes]
HTML export encoding
No
No
No
Baseline
Indicates that non-basic characters like ampersands are converted into HTML entities
If true
an ampersand '&' is exported as &
.
Added the degree symbol to the characters turned into entities. Swiss, French and German quote styles are automatically detected and 'entified' without needing to resort to this setting.
Export markup elements, e.g ^value()^, check this attribute before encoding values.
English typographic quotation marks and are exported as HTML entities rather than straight quotes, e.g. “
for left curly double quotes.
The symbol € is exported as €
.
Δ is exported as Δ
, δ as δ
, μ as μ
and ∑ as ∑
.
The move to UTF-8 encoded export since version 5 has lessened the need to this setting.