On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 07:48, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > >Le 12.02.2021 18:24, Sergio Carlavilla a écrit : > >> > >> I think the doceng team should pronounce about this. > >> > >> IMHO, use the 72 characters per line would be a problem in the future. > >> > > > >Why it would be a problem? > > > >-- > >Marc > > Hi folks, > > Can we make a compromise where real paragraphs, ie. the only things > which don't seem to need much in the way of AsciiDoctor markup, are kept > at 72 columns, and headings, lists, images, include macros, variables > and custom macros are allowed to go beyond the 72 columns? > If they have to, there's always word-smithing options for trying to be > as concise as possible (without, of course, making things too obtuse - > it's a tough balance, admittedly? > > That seemed to work for DocBook, so is there a reason it won't work > here? > For HTML output it doesn't look like it's an issue; although whitespace is preserved in the output, it's luckily irrelevant to HTML output. For other output formats such as PDF or mdoc then I can see that it is problematic to hard wrap text but that suggests that there's a tooling issue; Marc's need to be able to actually see what has changed is really important. Butting out for another 9 years now :D Ceri _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
