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Date:      Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:47:48 +0100
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml
Message-ID:  <4B437B44.9060308@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B425D7A.7030101@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201001042038.o04KcFo8028508@repoman.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001042109440.41098@ury.york.ac.uk> <4B425D7A.7030101@FreeBSD.org>

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On 04-01-2010 22:28, Doug Barton wrote:
> Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> dougb       2010-01-04 20:38:15 UTC
>>>
>>>    Modified files:
>>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml
>>>    Log:
>>>    Actually having the $FreeBSD$ tag expanded in the example rc.d script
>>>    did not end up looking as cool as I thought it would, so switch to an
>>>    unexpanded example.
>>>
>>>    Fix the text in the new paragraph to work better around the markup.
>>
>>>        <para>  Unless there is a good reason to start the service
>>> 	earlier all ports scripts should use
>>> -	<programlisting>REQUIRE: LOGIN</programlisting>. If the service
>>> +	<programlisting>REQUIRE: LOGIN</programlisting>  If the service
>>> 	runs as a particular user (other than root) this is mandatory.
>>
>> This is now grammatically incorrect.  I actually think the original is
>> better than any rewording I can come up with.
>
> Take a quick look at the page before it auto-updates. The old way the
> period ends up all by itself in the text after the programlisting box,
> so it looks like this:
>
> . If the service
>
This feels like working around some bug/shortcoming in the markup engine 
to me (?)  The source text never knows the dimensions and font of the 
resulting output (computer screen/paper/pda/...).

Regards,
Rene
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