On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 08:35:29PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > Wouter, > > On 6 Apr 2016, at 20:21, Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be> wrote: > > > I just merged three other patches, and now this won't apply anymore: > > Eric and I are keeping you busy :-)
Yes you are :-) Originally I thought this would be just a short discussion, but it's eating up a lot of free time now. Almost worth it to have an in-person meeting to discuss all this in detail... > >> * Put the above terms in bold. > > > > I'm a bit in dubio about this bit: > > > > - It's something that will tend to be forgotten, which would then result > > in a text with some things in bold and some things not in bold, which > > would be confusing. > > - RFC2119 doesn't use bold (mostly because RFCs are plain text, anyway, > > but hey). > > - It's more type work. > > - Bold *and* uppercase isn't that much stronger than "just" uppercase, I > > think. > > - Typographically, I am of the opinion that overdoing the boldness (no > > pun intended) makes a text harder to read, mostly because it tends to > > be somewhat distracting > > > > I'll readily admit that it's all a bit weak, which is why I say "in > > dubio". > > > > Thoughts? > > Well, if you want a look, it's here: > https://github.com/abligh/nbd/blob/fix-formatting/doc/proto.md As said in my mail to Eric, it doesn't convince me. > If you decide you like the bold, I can fix that as a separate > patch which does nothing but 'fix bold'. I'm not that fussed! Good. I'd hate it if you were :-) -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list Nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general