Re: Please respect line length limitation in www.debian.org source
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> I recently added Michael Ablassmeier's German translation of
> www.debian.org/security/audit/faq
> and noticed that files related to the Security Audit Project consist
> of one long line of text ...
That seems suprising.
> ... not really, but I found indeed lines with more than 300 characters.
Ahh I see, I 've tended to have on line per paragraph.
> Please avoid using such long lines. CVS which is used to manage *.wml
> files is line oriented, similar to diff and patch. It's very hard to
> find a difference in two very long lines which differ only in small
> pieces. Even fancy utilities such as vimdiff, mgdiff, xdiff, tkdiff,
> kompare, ... are not very useful in these cases!
Point taken.
> I will try to fix this, but it is not easy since it may confuse
> translators, who want to update outdated translations and have to
> analyse these diffs.
Would it be worth my while to breakup the English versions first,
or would that be unduly confusing? As the person responsible I guess
I should like to help fix if I can do so.
> PS: Maybe we should not give people write access without pointers to
> style guides and www.debian.org/devel/website. I also suggest that
> people send patches to this list before they get write access.
For what it's worth I've read those pages and I see no mention
of any line lenght restriction.
I chose to use a single line per paragraph as that seemed natural,
but now that you've drawn attention to it I do see that other areas
of the site seem not to be in this style.
I guess there are guidelines which I've missed but certainly not
in the link you refer to above.
Steve
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