Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-05-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:49:20PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: I've attached the lines that I think are wrong to this message. I filed bugs today for those that are still broken. -- Simon [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] *\ Ah, here we are - `How to Raise the \** ** ]-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-[ **\

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Simon Huggins wrote: So doing this on the Packages file from amd64 in unstable currently there are list problems in the following dd-list'd packages. I think mostly they could easily just be s/^ / / on the affected lines though sipcalc is interesting in that it uses two

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-18 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Andreas, On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Simon Huggins wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description The others are probably bugs then. Do you have a list to name and shame? Ahh- shame on my first

How to express bullet lists

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, some quick look into the packages files I found out that (at least) four different ways to notate bullet lists in long descriptions. Developers us '-', '+', '*' or '=' signs to mark the beginning of some list (that whould have been an \begin{itemize} in LaTeX or ul in HTML). The

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-17 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On the other hand http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht is perfectly formatted on the web pages. It seems to be according to the fact that parts of the description where a line starts with two spaces are wrapped into pre tags

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Simon Huggins wrote: Yes. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description The others are probably bugs then. Do you have a list to name and shame? Ahh- shame on my first for missing this. ;-) For a quick shot I used: grep -B13 -A1 ^ [^

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 09:17:44 +, Simon Huggins wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On the other hand http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht is perfectly formatted on the web pages. It seems to be according to the fact that parts of the