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Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.



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Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:

>   The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
> Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists.

That's quite a complex document for something I believe should be
quite simple.

When I use Emacs, it can reflow text (M-q) by looking at the
indentation level of the following lines.  It can even cope with
bullets, outdents, indents, etc.  If a frontend display routine could
handle that, that would solve the problem generically, and would
handle any level of indentation required.

Specifically regarding bullets: We now have UTF-8 encoded control
files, so why not simply use the UCS bullet character (U+2022)?


Regards,
Roger

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