[PATCH] hgrc.5: fix subsection formatting

Peter Arrenbrecht peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 00:42:13 CDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:15 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > While looking over hgrc.5.txt, I also found that spacing after
>  > full stops is not consistent: It varies between English (2
>  > spaces) and "French" spacing (1).
>  >
>  > Shall I correct this, and if yes, what is preferred?
>
>  Sure. For the record, "French spacing" is a highly ambiguous term - in
>  the US, we've completely reversed the definition. Let's go with one
>  space.
>
>  While we're on the topic, I'm a little frustrated with asciidoc. On the
>  one hand, it has a bunch of little formatting gotchas, and on the other,
>  it has a lot of dependencies. I'm rather tempted to move to manpage
>  format. It'll reduce the tools needed for basic UNIX install and
>  conversion to HTML or plain text can be done in numerous ways.

+1. I think asciidoc requires rather non-intuitive formatting for
getting more complex things properly into manpages. See
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue1020.


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