On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:56 am, Daniel Burrows wrote: > We can also extend the description format in backwards-compatible ways. > So, while a proper markup language would be nice, that doesn't preclude > fixing the bullet problem, albeit in a slightly hacky way, NOW. What about > this:
This proposal is now mostly implemented in aptitude's experimental SVN branch, except that I decided to require exactly N+2 spaces of indentation for the contents of each entry in the list. It seems to work pretty well for most packages, although I haven't tested any packages that use sub-lists yet. (are there any?) A few packages that it can't figure out how to parse are displayed slightly worse -- usually a matter of indentation not quite lining up, so instead of * label: labelled lists are unfortunately not properly supported you get something like * label: labelled lists are unfortunately not properly supported In a quick scan of a few dozen packages, I only saw one (libcroco3) whose description was seriously damaged by the new formatting. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | A conclusion is the place | | where you got tired of thinking. | \--- Be like the kid in the movie! Play chess! -- http://www.uschess.org --/
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