Re: Merged release notes (was Re: Errouneous link in dist upgrade documentation)
Well, I don't know which version you've been using, but with version
1.1.41 everything is ok w.r.t. examples in text format. I've also
played around with various examples in and out of <p>s, putting the
<example> immediately after (= even without a space!) the preceding
text, etc. Everytime the example came out nice with a blank line
before and after the example. So, there's nothing wrong here.
I've also used the latest version from the boot-floppies CVS repository
(which doesn't have <example>s in separate <p>s) and there everything
is also ok.
If there were something wrong with examples I would have catched that
already some ago when I explicitly work on them to get a consistent
look in all formats.
Thanks,
Ardo
"J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:26:46AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > > especially the <p>-surrounding of every <example>, which looks _much_
> > > better in the .txt and doesn't seem to affect other output formats.
> >
> > I seem to remember that debiandoc-sgml maintainer told me not do do this.
>
> Than let him fix the text-mode output. Which can't be done any more for
> potato, so we should use a workaround.
>
> > And I don't understand why is it so much better, not even why is it
> > different.
>
> Compare this:
>
> ---------- text mode, without <p>'s
> if `/dev/hdc' is your CD-ROM drive, `/etc/fstab' should contain a
> line
> /dev/hdc /cdrom auto defaults,noauto,ro 0 0
> To test this, insert a CD and give commands
> ----------
>
> ---------- text mode, with <p>'s
> if `/dev/hdc' is your CD-ROM drive, `/etc/fstab' should contain a
> line
>
> /dev/hdc /cdrom auto defaults,noauto,ro 0 0
>
> To test this, insert a CD and give commands
> ----------
>
> I've seen _many_ scientific and computer-related texts (being a student also
> has advantages...), and never ever I saw something like the without-<p>'s
> version. It's just a mess.
>
> Also, even without <p>'s, all other output formats (html, ps, pdf) DO have
> whitespace, so I suppose this is the way it was intended, and that it should
> be that way for text-mode, too. The fact that it's not is a bug in
> debiandoc-sgml or related things.
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