In the package.html files, I find if I use the code for the emdash, "—",
then the string "—" gets rendered--that is, it does not print an emdash. 
Have you encountered this before?
 xxxxx@xxxxx 

How do I get an emdash into the output. — If I put this escape sequence 
in one of my html files it looks fine in a browser but the mifdoclet does not 
recognize it.
 xxxxx@xxxxx 

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The justification for — being used for an em-dash comes from
two sources:

- ANSI table defines 151 to be an em-dash (and 150 to be en-dash)
    http://www.fingertipsoft.com/3dkbd/ansitable.html
- Dreamweaver inserts — when inserting an em-dash

 xxxxx@xxxxx  2002-06-13

We have a hand-built HTML parser that we add entities to by request.
Currently, the only entities we support are:

            &lt;                     less than (<)
            &gt;                     greater than (>)
            &amp;                    ampersand (&)
            &nbsp;                   non-breaking space
            &reg;                    registered trademark
            &copy;                   copyright

As documented at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/mifdoclet/docs/mifdoclet.html#mappingofhtmltags

We can define others, but would prefer to use the text name rather than
the number, because it's more readable, such as "&emsp;" rather than "&#8195;". 
(We could implemetn the number as well.)

The HTML 4.0 spec defines the following entities for dashes and spaces,
minus sign and plus/over/minus sign and other common characters.
I propose we add all of these.  Are there any others you might need?

   <!ENTITY ensp    CDATA "&#8194;" -- en space, U+2002 ISOpub -->
   <!ENTITY emsp    CDATA "&#8195;" -- em space, U+2003 ISOpub -->
   <!ENTITY thinsp  CDATA "&#8201;" -- thin space, U+2009 ISOpub -->
   <!ENTITY ndash   CDATA "&#8211;" -- en dash, U+2013 ISOpub -->
   <!ENTITY mdash   CDATA "&#8212;" -- em dash, U+2014 ISOpub -->

   <!ENTITY times   CDATA "&#215;"  -- multiplication sign, U+00D7
ISOnum -->
   <!ENTITY divide  CDATA "&#247;"  -- division sign, U+00F7 ISOnum -->
   <!ENTITY minus   CDATA "&#8722;" -- minus sign, U+2212 ISOtech
-->                  
   <!ENTITY plusmn  CDATA "&#177;"  -- plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus
sign, U+00B1 ISOnum -->

   <!ENTITY cong    CDATA "&#8773;" -- approximately equal to, U+2245
ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY equiv   CDATA "&#8801;" -- identical to, U+2261 ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY ne      CDATA "&#8800;" -- not equal to, U+2260 ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY le      CDATA "&#8804;" -- less-than or equal to, U+2264
ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY ge      CDATA "&#8805;" -- greater-than or equal to, U+2265
ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY prop    CDATA "&#8733;" -- proportional to, U+221D ISOtech
-->

   <!ENTITY infin   CDATA "&#8734;" -- infinity, U+221E ISOtech -->
   <!ENTITY bull    CDATA "&#8226;" -- bullet = black small circle,
U+2022 ISOpub  -->
   <!ENTITY hellip  CDATA "&#8230;" -- horizontal ellipsis = three dot
leader, U+2026 ISOpub -->
   <!ENTITY deg     CDATA "&#176;"  -- degree sign, U+00B0 ISOnum -->

These correspond to FrameMaker characters:

ensp    
emsp
thinsp
ndash
mdash

times
divide
minus
plusmn

cong
equiv
ne
le      \xa3
ge
prop

infin
bull
hellip
deg

 xxxxx@xxxxx  2002-04-27

I fixed & #150; to be en dash and & #151; to be em dash.
Also, & #8212; works and has worked for some time.  
 xxxxx@xxxxx  2002-06-13