From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 14:10: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8EE37BB23 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA20353; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007182110.OAA20353@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Reply-To: Ben Smithurst Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/20009; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ben Smithurst To: Brooks Davis Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:42:58 +0100 Brooks Davis wrote: > I'm almost certain it was decided to do it the other way so quote > characters would be automagicaly matched and localized properly. yep, you're right. I just checked some CVS logs. That means a couple of things I added recently are wrong. I guess I could put &[lr]dquo; -> on my list of things to cleanup in the FAQ then. As well as "foo", 'foo', `foo', ``foo'', and $DEITY only knows how many other quoting styles are used. >>> + paying attention, that he is *here*. >> >> Perhaps foo instead of *foo*, or something. The >> FAQ isn't limited to ASCII text like email is. :-) > > I though of doing that, but it's quoted text. We could do that, but > I'd want to be sure that the * (or similar) emphasis marks where being > added in the text version. I don't know what w3m does. It doesn't add "*" in the text version. How important is that? I'd argue that removing that is just changing formatting and is no worse than re-wrapping the lines or changing "foo" to foo. *foo* is going to come out real ugly in HTML. :-( -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message