"Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/14/06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The space is necessary; it tells package front-ends to not wrap the line. >> See Policy 5.6.13. > > I guess you are referring to: > > "Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed > verbatim. If the display cannot be panned horizontally, the displaying > program will line wrap them "hard" (i.e., 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)." > > When the URL is something like http://www.myniceproject.org, I don't > see that would be the difference in having the extra space or not. > And the extra space doesn't look nice in the description, nor does it > look nice in the http://packages.debian.org page, and I doubt it looks > nice in synaptic either. Therefore, I prefer not to add an extra > space, because I prefer my URLs to look just as the rest of the text. > > Policy does not talk about URLs, it just explains what the extra space is for.
It matters if you have http://www.my.real.long.and.cool.domain.name.that.i.so.love.net/all/my/projects/package/html/ MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
