On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 06:13:49PM +0200, Viktor Griph wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > >On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:26:30PM +0200, Viktor Griph wrote: > >>On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Dominik Vogt wrote: > >>>Yes. I'm now looking at the issues brought up by requiring sed, > >>>perl and tbl for building the docs. > >> > >>So, is everything ready for release? > > > >And is it really helpful to have tables in the man page? What's > >the benefit of > > Other than the table with visuals and depth info I don't really see any > use for them. I've been changing <informaltable> to >variablelist> in > several places already. > > > > > +--------------------------+----------------------------+ > > | Formatting Directive | Description | > > +--------------------------+----------------------------+ > > |%l, %c & %r | Insert the next item | > > | | label. Up to three labels | > > | | can be used. The item | > > | | column is left-aligned | > > | | (%l), centered (%c) or | > > | | right-aligned (%r). | > > +--------------------------+----------------------------+ > > |%i | Inserts the mini icon. | > > > >over > > > > %l, %c, %r > > Insert the next item label. Up to three labels can be > > used. The item column is left-aligned (%l), centered > > (%c) or right-aligned (%r). > > %i > > Inserts the mini icon. > > > >I find the table harder to read, but t's easier to find an entry > >you are looking for. It is also very uncommon to have man pages > >with ASCII tables. > > I also find the variablelist better than tables for describing meaning of > certain directives. They use the space more efficient and they don't have > an ugly frame.
Can you eliminate the use of tables then? I think we just have a couple of them. > Speaking of the depth/visual table: Sholud it really read > > Note that if you use a private color map (i.e., fvwm is started > with the -C or the -I options), then others defaults are used. > ^^^ > ? I'm not a master of Engish grammar, but that s looks bad to me. That's a typo. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt (at) gmx.de
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