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Re: Formatting lists in descriptions
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Formatting lists in descriptions |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:23:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-13 20:06 +0300) wrote:
[...]
>> Formatting will be lost in UIs, so this should be a comma-separated list
>> instead.
>
> Currently the formatting is not lost in Emacs UI, but I agree on this one.
The --show and --search options fill paragraphs, and now the Emacs UI
does as well. :-) Same for guix-web, where the browser automatically
fills things.
> What about separating such entries with newspaces as it is done in some
> other packages (e.g., 'signing-party') to prevent the format breaking?:
Yes, why not; it’s still not very pleasant to the eye but at least it
formatting will be preserved (except for guix-web, but we can fix it
later.)
> And as I have an unhealthy desire to organize the same things in the
> same manner, what variant to choose for formatting lists? Should the
> list items begin with "-" or "+" or "*" or "•" and should there be spaces
> before the chosen symbol or maybe there should be just a couple of
> spaces without any marker?
I have a slight preference for • (which is the standard thing in
English, AIUI), preceded by two spaces.
The downside is that it won’t render properly on non-Unicode capable
terminals (and in a non-Unicode-capable locale, Guile will emit a
question mark instead), but I think that’s a price I don’t mind paying.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.