Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:22:37 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: hoek@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990828012237.A41324@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19990827190341.C35482@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:03:41PM -0400 References: <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908250049.JAA00382@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990825115510.A96398@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990825194348.G18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990827013021.B47771@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990827152244.A7271@mithrandr.moria.org> <19990827190341.C35482@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>
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On Fri 1999-08-27 (19:03), Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 03:22:44PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> >
> > Introducing a line break because changes you've instituted earlier in
> > the line cause original text to move forward over 80 characters should
> > be avoided, as this gives the impression some work was done on that
> > text.
>
> Please don't reformat code that you're editing, Neil. This makes it
> difficult for the translators. You should endeavor to keep your
> changes as separate as possible from the original (see, for example,
> the style used ("that's supposed to be used") with mdoc files. If you
> start running par(1) or fmt(1) on your work, you start making life
> very difficult for translators.
I thought that was what I was saying.
Neil
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