Andreas Enge (2015-07-19 00:13 +0300) wrote: > Coming late, I have not followed the full discussion closely, so my remark > may be out of tune.
Not too late; the final decision on lists formatting has not been made yet. The last related post is Ludo's "Texinfo in descriptions?": <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00471.html>. > I think our descriptions should be formatted as simply > as possible: just plain ascii text, which would work in any locale (or if > you insist, maybe utf8). > > So far, I simply avoided lists in package descriptions; usually, by > replacing > "The bla package contains > - A > - B > - C" > by "The bla package contains A; B; C." or similarly. This is good if A, B, C are not too long, but I think it is less readable for more verbose list items (e.g., 'guile-json', 'xkb-utils', 'libdaemon', …). -- Alex
