Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:30:21 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990827013021.B47771@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:14:47AM %2B0100 References: <19990822200737.A65807@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908250049.JAA00382@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990825115510.A96398@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990825194348.G18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:14:47AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > 2. It reads oddly. It might just be my brain, but I can't read the Yes, although I expect that my brain, at least, will adapt. My brain does that, sometimes. :) > 3. I'm not convinced it actually makes things markedly easier for the > translators, when compared to our current scheme of commiting content > changes and white space changes in separate commits. I was updating the badly neglected top half of ports/chapter.sgml when I realized that I was slowly losing complete track of changes. Editing 80+ character lines is just too hard. It's far easier to add an arbitrary line break, like when editing mdoc files. > But, these aren't objections, just notes. I don't see any reason why we > can't try it out on some of your documentation for a few months, and, if Heh. I don't think I produce enough documentation to qualify as a "test trial". :) > Have I understood your proposal properly? I may sometimes make more aggressive use of linebreaks than in your examples, but yes. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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