Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:22:44 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: hoek@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990827152244.A7271@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <19990827013021.B47771@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:30:21AM -0400 References: <19990822200737.A65807@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908250049.JAA00382@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990825115510.A96398@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990825194348.G18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990827013021.B47771@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>
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On Fri 1999-08-27 (01:30), Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > I was updating the badly neglected top half of ports/chapter.sgml when > I realized that I was slowly losing complete track of changes. > Editing 80+ character lines is just too hard. It's far easier to add > an arbitrary line break, like when editing mdoc files. I imagine adding a line break won't hinder translations (at least in my tiny experience in translation), but just don't go about using par or your favourite five-finger-emacs-function that re-paragraphs the whole thing. Let me qualify this, since it doesn't quite sound like I want it to. If you're editing a line, and you're typing at or approaching 80 characters, adding a line break in your own change shouldn't be a problem. Introducing a line break because changes you've instituted earlier in the line cause original text to move forward over 80 characters should be avoided, as this gives the impression some work was done on that text. In no case should you then merge the new line you've created with the line after it. Your next commit is to do whatever whitespace changes you need to. At least that's my take at it. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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