Quoting Michael Banck (mbanck@debian.org): > > Please note that debian-l10n-english suggests using the enumeration > > style you mention for a2ps, when we're reviewing package > > descriptions... > > What's the rationale? So far, I was under the impression that " * " A not very strong one, I'm afraid..:-) IIRC, we once found some reference indicating a tendency for dashed enumerations to be an accepted "standard" but I can't quote this. Another reason is the fact that we're using this in French translations....which is a bad reason..:-) Another is that we had to choose something and, based on purely personal impressions, we were thinking that dashed enumerations were the majority (nobody really verified). I think that we never really went into this to be the only proposed change. Most of the time, there are several other changes...particularly when enumerations are involved because, in such cases: - they're often too long (enumerating each and every feature of the software) - they have formatting issues (punctuation, often) - they have consistency issues (mixing verb sentences and noun sentences for instance)
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