[PATCH] hgrc.5: fix subsection formatting

Christian Ebert blacktrash at gmx.net
Tue Apr 1 01:56:12 CDT 2008


* Matt Mackall on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 16:04:25 -0500
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:15 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> 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.

Which is why I put it in quotes, I just used the LaTeX-term.
Personally, I associate the space before/after
question/exclamation marks and guillemets with french spacing.

> Let's go with one space.

Ok.

> While we're on the topic, I'm a little frustrated with asciidoc.

But asciidoc uses Mercurial! ;)

> 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.

imho "real" man pages are more readable. -- Still I'm gonna
submit the one-space-change for the time being, ok? Unfortunately
I only know LaTeX, and nothing about nroff/groff/troff or
whatever they are called, so I can't help with that move.

> It'll reduce the tools needed for basic UNIX install and
> conversion to HTML or plain text can be done in numerous ways.

Hm. For install I'm sure this is true; but for conversion: I
remember some lengthy discussions on mutt-dev on this topic, so
the ways might be numerous but not that easy and again involving
dependencies, xml? docbook? etc. Again, I dont' know about this
conversion stuff.

c
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