Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Message-ID: <200007182120.OAA21462@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/20009; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/20009: [PATCH] the FAQ needs an entry on bikesheds Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:39 -0700 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:42:58PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >>> + paying attention, that he is *here*.</para> > >> > >> Perhaps <emphasis>foo</emphasis> instead of *foo*, or something. The > >> FAQ isn't limited to ASCII text like email is. :-) > > > > I though of doing that, but it's quoted text. We could do that, but > > I'd want to be sure that the * (or similar) emphasis marks where being > > added in the text version. I don't know what w3m does. > > It doesn't add "*" in the text version. How important is that? I'd > argue that removing that is just changing formatting and is no worse > than re-wrapping the lines or changing "foo" to <quote>foo</quote>. > *foo* is going to come out real ugly in HTML. :-( I guess that's reasionable. I'd say it's a bug that emphasis is dropped in the ASCII mode, but that you're right in that we should either clean the text up to look like normaly formatted DocBook text or include it in the DocBook equivalent of <pre> tags. There's a cleaned up diff with "'s and *'s replaced at: http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/bikeshed.diff -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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