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Date:      20 Mar 2002 14:03:58 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        darklogik@pittgoth.com
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017078014.aba542@mired.org>, swear@blarg.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook
Message-ID:  <x2n0x299rl.0x2@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3C98D2B1.6040600@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>

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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.)

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