From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 12 18:17:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cbl-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net (CBL-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net [209.178.114.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA0E37BB7C for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kelly@ad1440.net) Received: from uta003594 (uta003594.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.211.36]) by cbl-skelly3.hs.earthlink.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id SAA59178; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kelly@ad1440.net) Message-ID: <020f01bfa4e6$67e35bd0$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> From: "Sean Kelly" To: "Sheldon Hearn" Cc: References: <26713.953204400@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Subject: Re: Proposal re SGML style Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:19:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Do you agree that the proposed style would reduce in this way, the work > required to _create_ changes? Absolutely. But again, I'd be concerned that writers might produce stilted or oddly sounding paragraphs if consciously watching out for when to press the newline button. >Whether or not the saving is enough > motivation to adopt this style is a different issue. For now, I'm just > interested in hearing whether you think there's any merit in this at > all, in case I've completely missed the boat. Oh no, you haven't missed the boat at all. Structured information standards (and the Emacs PSGML mode) already do give a fair amount of physical formatting to what is plain text, and whitespace commits are a (sometimes) necessary evil. I'd welcome something to minimize their impact, so long as it didn't impact creativity or flow. Take care. --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message