also sprach Andreas Tille <til...@rki.de> [2009.03.20.1445 +0100]: > I tried to find a clear advise how to reasonable format lists inside long > descriptions of packages. The only thing I know is that lines with two > leading spaces is considered verbose. This leaves a lot of freedom to > simulate for instance itemize lists. I'd like to give some examples for > package names starting with 'a' and stopped with the first package names > of 'b'. If you are bored by these examples continue reading below the > ------ line.
What we really should do, instead of clinging to the NIH-behaviour, reinventing the wheel, and polishing it over and over again is ditch the pseudo-RFC822 format we have and use Yaml instead. http://www.yaml.org/start.html http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/ -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "den stil verbessern, das heißt den gedanken verbessern." - friedrich nietzsche
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