Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:22:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006163638.37031G-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> . Two spaces after '.' >> > No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. That's how formal English specifies sentence endings and is how the rest of the documentation is. >> . Always close inline tags on the same line as its contents - ie, >> never: >> >> <para>foo foo blah blah blah >> </para> >> > > What if they are multiline? What if the other enclosing tags that end > before the </para> don't fit on a single line? <para>foo bar balh fadaf afds fdef afdafd</para> That's what he means. >> Any comments? >> >> (oh, and does it matter about combining whitespace/markup/content >> changes in the articles at this point, without any translations?) >> > The translator will really hate any pure formatting style changes. Yes, but there aren't currently any translated versions so this doesn't apply. :) Still, it's best to go ahead and make it a habit and always follow it for all -doc commits, IMO. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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