On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:58:53PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Since it is very important to have proper descriptions, I would like > to see most of that section integrated into policy. If it doesn't > belong there, feel free to reassign this bug to the proper place, > maybe developers-reference.. > > For reference, here is the mentioned section: > > 7.1. Types of formatting line in the extended description > --------------------------------------------------------- > > * Those starting with a single space are part of a paragraph. > Successive lines of this form will be word-wrapped when > displayed. The leading space will usually be stripped off. > > * Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed > verbatim. If the display cannot be panned horizontally the > displaying program will linewrap them `hard' (ie, without taking > account of word breaks). If it can they will be allowed to trail > off to the right. None, one or two initial spaces may be > deleted, but the number of spaces deleted from each line will be > the same (so that you can have indenting work correctly, for > example). > > * Those containing a single space followed by a single full stop > character. These are rendered as blank lines. This is the > _only_ way to get a blank line - see below. > > * Those containing a space, a full stop and some more characters. > These are for future expansion. Do not use them. I collect some 'bad' Descriptions in the FAQ from the ddtp. See http://ddtp.debian.org for more information. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Make a software that is foolproof, and only fools will want to use it.
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