From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 14:20:11 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 6849737B694 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA21462; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007182120.OAA21462@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Reply-To: Brooks Davis 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: Brooks Davis To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Brooks Davis , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:39 -0700 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:42:58PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >>> + 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. :-( I guess that's reasionable. I'd say it's a bug that emphasis is dropped in the ASCII mode, but that you're right in that we should either clean the text up to look like normaly formatted DocBook text or include it in the DocBook equivalent of 
 tags.
 
 There's a cleaned up diff with "'s and *'s replaced at:
 
 http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/bikeshed.diff
 
 -- Brooks
 
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