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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:11:20 +0200
From:      Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   TAB vs 8. Spaces (was Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml)
Message-ID:  <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de>
In-Reply-To: <200008051641.JAA35521@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ben@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:41:45AM -0700
References:  <200008051641.JAA35521@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:41:45AM -0700, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>   Major cleanup of markup in the FAQ.  This has been needed for a
>   long time...  No content changes are in this commit.

I promised that I would fix the formatting of the FAQ after Ben fixed
the markup. The diff is ready and can be downloaded from 
http://www.ruhr.de/home/nathan/FreeBSD/faq-diff.gz
MD5 (faq-diff.gz) = 21ee0457524da69d9f417e1fba73d40e

There's just one small problem:
bash# cvs diff -u doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml | wc
   18733   98512  815065
bash# wc doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
   11178   44894  458998 doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml

In other words, two line of diffs for each line of the FAQ ;-(

That's why I've uploaded a fixed version as:
http://www.ruhr.de/home/nathan/FreeBSD/faq-formatted.gz
MD5 (faq-formatted.gz) = 11e04f81f0543e2d897caa95c90a7d4c

I've tested the diff by rebuilding the handbook and comparing the HTML
outputs generated from the two versions. The most obvious changes are
a couple additional empty paragraphs (<p></p>) caused by the all new
style for <programlisting>.

The size of the diff worried me. The main reason is the amount of
TABs in revision 1.87. The FDP Primer demands spaces for indentation
and my tool sticks to that rule.

What's the general opinion about using TABs as a shortcut for indentation?

/s/Udo
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