Re: Debian WWW CVS: dmartinez

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:08:02AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > > CVSROOT:	/cvs/webwml
> > > > Module name:	webwml
> > > > Changes by:	dmartinez	01/05/25 15:34:15
> > > > 
> > > > Modified files:
> > > > 	english/MailingLists: mklist.tags 
> > > > 
> > > > Log message:
> > > > Added several spaces at the end of German, Spanish and Swedish translations. It seems that WML doesn't treat newlines as blank spaces, and the final word in several sentences is joint with the next one.
> > 
> > These changes are evil since they're difficult to maintain (about nobody
> > cares about trailing whitespaces).
> 
> They're easy to fix, at least. It's either that or having 200-column lines,
> which is plain ugly and almost as unmaintainable...

Both are ugly and unmaintainable.

We already have slices that look like:

	[EN:
some blurb and more blurb, and guess what, even more blurb
and it even continues with more blurb in the second line
	:]

Not sure if whitespace=delete is activated there.

Regards,

	Joey

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