Bug#522527: Escape description text with --color html

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I wonder if we should go all the way to making this a separate output
>> format, with the color option retained for backward compatibility.  I
>> think that was proposed a while back.

> Yeah, at first I hesitated to make the changes I have now proposed
> because colour ain't format. But yes, it might be a good idea to move it
> as an output format. I don't think other output formats work (well) with
> --color html anyway, do they?

XML clearly doesn't.  The <span> tags would end up encoded.

LetterQualifier could work, but I doubt anyone is using that combination
and it's not compelling enough for me to care too much about preserving
it.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>