Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:29:25 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017078014.aba542@mired.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook Message-ID: <3C990D45.6070703@pittgoth.com> References: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> <mfr8mf98vb.8mf@localhost.localdomain> <15512.3992.905972.279159@guru.mired.org> <20020320000727.284a00c1.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <15512.44867.930654.886921@guru.mired.org> <3C98C11E.30902@pittgoth.com> <15512.51581.789216.308497@guru.mired.org> <3C98D2B1.6040600@pittgoth.com> <x2n0x299rl.0x2@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> writes: > > >>I am in no way saying you cannot submit documentation, Gary just asked >>nicely if you could use two spaces instead of one to make things easier, >>and you have taken minor offence, if you feel that only one space is >>needed, then we can add the extra space later. >> > > I don't think I asked (or would ask) that of Mike. I just got sucked in > by Mike's rather inflamatory response to Martin's request to "Please > put...". Mike seemed to think he was writing only for document > formatters and that the opinions of schoolmarms (and, by inference, > document maintainers) didn't matter to him. I took offense, though I > tried not to show it in explaining that I thought Martin's issue was the > readability of the raw document and that "double spaces" was still a > good convention for fixed-pitch text. We disagree. No big deal. > > I do agree with Mike about the "barriers to entry". There are very many > in the FDP and I think this one is unimportant enough that the FDP > standard should explicitly permit one or more spaces, but suggest two. > (Maybe it should instead suggest a newline, or either, but that's a > different thread.) > > > Then I got confused on who was asking about the 2 spaces, oh well, apologies for putting words in your mouth Gary... ;) -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehome | help
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