Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:30 -0500, James Antill wrote: >> Personally I think the use of '"', ., *, •, o or ∘ ... are fine, just >> as long as all the tools are displaying the same non-invisible bytes². > > Right, this discussion is going nowhere, and there are a lot of egos in > play. At the moment I'm thinking PK should just do this: > > --------------------------------------------- > This is a spec file description or > an update description in bohdi. > > The following things 'were' fixed: > - Fix `dave' > - Fubar update because of "security" > -------------------------------------------- > > This will be converted by gnome-packagekit into: > > --------------------------------------------- > This is a spec file description or an update description in bohdi. > > The following things ‘were’ fixed: > • Fix ‘dave’ > • Fubar update because of “security” > --------------------------------------------- > > The double quotes will be marked translated as left and right chars (so > « and » can be used), the LaTeX single quotes (and double will be > expanded and "- " converted to bullets. > Few things: 1) Why convert " => “” ? " is correct punctuation already. 2) The concern I see with conversion to bullets and `' pairs is not how things that fit the use case are converted but how things that don't fit the use case are converted. ie: This was due to dave's library's bug #12345 upstream's changelog said: `Dave's patch broke this' # 12345 fixed - and + formatting fixed for floating point numbers > If you're doing to use ☠ or ☢ in a spec file, then the text box is going > to look rubbish and be all on one line. If you use a description longer > than a few hundred words, gnome-packagekit will truncate it. > > Now I'm going to go back to coding, rather than talking to angry people. > PackageKit is, of course, your baby but you're trying to add formatting to a field that doesn't have any formatting rules inside Fedora or cross-distro. Please be careful (especially before introducing even more invasive formatting like Markdown, textile, or reStructuredText as that will wreak havoc with a great number of descriptions that don't expect those formatting transformations to be applied.) -Toshio
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