Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:06:53 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use tabs in docs? (was: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml) Message-ID: <20010404010653.BD55A3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010403092230.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on "Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:22:30 -0700 (PDT)"
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So it seems everyone agrees that tabs are the way to go. Below is a
proposed patch to the FDP primer to make this clear once and for all.
Comments?
Dima Dorfman
dima@unixfreak.org
Index: chapter.sgml
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RCS file: /st/src/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2000/08/08 23:39:14 1.9
+++ chapter.sgml 2001/04/04 00:58:01
@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@
which might contain this one.</para>
<para>Every start tag increases the indentation level by 2 spaces, and
- every end tag decreases the indentation level by 2 spaces. Content
+ every end tag decreases the indentation level by 2 spaces. Replace
+ as many leading spaces with tabs as appropriate. Do not use
+ spaces in front of tabs, and do not add extraneous whitespace at the
+ end of a line. Content
within elements should be indented by two spaces if the content runs
over more than one line.</para>
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