[moving to the -doc list for discussion]
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
Em 09-07-2013 21:13, Benjamin Kaduk escreveu:
Remove a confusing paragraph whose net contribution is negative. Remove
some from "Ports Collection", it's unnecessary. Make one example
Was this discussed anywhere? I am seeing a pretty long precedent for the
non-breaking space.
Indeed it wasn't discussed but I think that these non-breaking spaces
should be reconsidered.
I had added the to the Ports Collection in the word list very
recently, then saw that it really made no sense to force those two words to
be on the same line.
Typography rules and conventions are language-dependent. For example, in
Hungarian it is not nice to end a line with a sentence-starting
single-letter article. Afaik, English does not have such rules, except
widows and orphans, which are more concerned with aesthetics. It is
reasonable to avoid a line break between FreeBSD and 9.X or similar cases
but probably not for such long terms as Ports Collection. Actually, it may
just hit back because it may make justified paragraphs very ugly in our
print formats.
Exactly.
I have done my share of fitting relatively large font text into a small
space and trying to get the wrapping to look nice; with a nbsp there will
almost certainly be some font size+page width combinations that look bad.
We should probably discuss and decide one way or the other and actually
put it in the word list, so we remember for next time. I actually don't
have strong feelings either way.
I went back through the history of this file, and at least one instance
was added in r33364 by pgj (cc'd), with review by gabor@, even! That was
back in Dec 2008, so changing our minds now would not be terrible, if we
want to.
Does anyone want to argue for keeping the nbsp?
-Ben
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