From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 10 01:36:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AE7D4; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:36:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02571AF5; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r6A1adhB050501; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:36:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r6A1adJB050498; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:36:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:36:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Benjamin Kaduk Subject: Re: svn commit: r42201 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/docbook-markup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <201307090627.r696RuOg076372@svn.freebsd.org> <51DC7984.4080106@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:36:39 -0600 (MDT) Cc: pgj@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Gabor Kovesdan , Warren Block X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:36:41 -0000 On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > I have done my share of fitting relatively large font text into a small space > and trying to get the wrapping to look nice; with a nbsp there will almost > certainly be some font size+page width combinations that look bad. > > We should probably discuss and decide one way or the other and actually put > it in the word list, so we remember for next time. I actually don't have > strong feelings either way. "Ports Collection" is there now. Or do you mean nbsp in general? I think the justification for using in "&os; 9.2" is that the version number is so narrow on its own that it would simply look bad if wrapped to the beginning of a line. That's a guess, I don't recall any explicit justification. As Gabor pointed out, it may not work or may even be contrary to what is desirable in translations. > I went back through the history of this file, and at least one instance was > added in r33364 by pgj (cc'd), with review by gabor@, even! That was back in > Dec 2008, so changing our minds now would not be terrible, if we want to. > > Does anyone want to argue for keeping the nbsp? For "FreeBSD 9.2", numbers and units like "8 GB", and guibutton uses, I think using nbsp is probably okay. For "Ports Collection" or other instances of multiple full words, I can't think of a compelling reason to use it.