Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:19:59 -0700 From: "Sean Kelly" <kelly@ad1440.net> To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Proposal re SGML style Message-ID: <020f01bfa4e6$67e35bd0$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> References: <26713.953204400@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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> Do you agree that the proposed style would reduce in this way, the work > required to _create_ changes? Absolutely. But again, I'd be concerned that writers might produce stilted or oddly sounding paragraphs if consciously watching out for when to press the newline button. >Whether or not the saving is enough > motivation to adopt this style is a different issue. For now, I'm just > interested in hearing whether you think there's any merit in this at > all, in case I've completely missed the boat. Oh no, you haven't missed the boat at all. Structured information standards (and the Emacs PSGML mode) already do give a fair amount of physical formatting to what is plain text, and whitespace commits are a (sometimes) necessary evil. I'd welcome something to minimize their impact, so long as it didn't impact creativity or flow. Take care. --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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