Plan for entities and code blocks

[David Reese]

>
> Out of curiosity, do you know why Textile 2 made the choice it did  
> for rendering character entities?  Was there some compelling design  
> criteria involved?
>
> -- John

Just some speculation...

one of the seminal articles on character entities -- the ALA trouble 
with ems and ens -- said decimal entities (—, etc) were more 
reliably rendered. It didn't give much detail on why named entitles were 
unreliable, only mentioning that netscape 4 had issues with named 
entities.  That article is why I (and lots of others, I assume) have 
always used numerical entities.

Maybe that's why textile 2 chose numbered entities too?

anyway, my 2 cents -- I assume modern browsers render all the named 
entitles correctly... so i'd agree with Jason for going with named 
entitles, for readability anyway.

david