On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:56 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> We can also extend the description format in backwards-compatible ways.
> So, while a proper markup language would be nice, that doesn't preclude
> fixing the bullet problem, albeit in a slightly hacky way, NOW. What about
> this:
This proposal is now mostly implemented in aptitude's experimental SVN
branch, except that I decided to require exactly N+2 spaces of indentation
for the contents of each entry in the list. It seems to work pretty well for
most packages, although I haven't tested any packages that use sub-lists yet.
(are there any?) A few packages that it can't figure out how to parse are
displayed slightly worse -- usually a matter of indentation not quite lining
up, so instead of
* label: labelled lists are unfortunately
not properly supported
you get something like
* label: labelled lists are unfortunately
not properly supported
In a quick scan of a few dozen packages, I only saw one (libcroco3) whose
description was seriously damaged by the new formatting.
Daniel
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