Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:29:09 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <19991008002909.A8995@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19991006152549.A33181@mithrandr.moria.org>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:25:49PM %2B0200 References: <19991006152549.A33181@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Brief, because I'm still somewhat busy, and really need to go to bed.
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> . 70 column wrap? (Emacs' sgml-mode seemed to give me that, when
> sgml-fill worked properly)
Sounds about right. This hasn't been codified anywhere, but 70 sounds
good. If no one objects to this one (and I haven't seen any so far) then
feel free to codify this in the Primer.
Incidentally, we could probably do with a doc/share/example directory
(and possibly language dependent equivalents) for things like .emacs
file fragments to set things up the FDP way. If anyone feels like
contributing any snippets. . .
> . Two spaces after '.'
Definitely. As Greg Lehey has already pointed out, some editors (Emacs
in particular) make assumptions about sentances based on this.
FWIW, up until a few months ago (when this first cropped up as part of
the Handbook conversion) I was a die-hard 1 space user. It took me about
a week to train my fingers out of it.
<snip>
The rest are all good.
> (oh, and does it matter about combining whitespace/markup/content
> changes in the articles at this point, without any translations?)
If you know that there are no translations *at all* then I wouldn't
bother with the separate two stage commit. But it's worth posting
here first to ask, just in case someone's got a translation that they're
working on that they haven't announced yet.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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