On 6/10/22 16:07, Peter Xu wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:38:53AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:It's not perfect, and currently it doesn't detect semantic newline problems, I think, but I guess it could be improved in the future.Semantic newlines can be challenging as IIUC it's not deterministic? I mean, I had a feeling that some paragraph could have multiple valid ways to do the layout and newlines without violating the rule. IMHO that could be a challenging part for contributors. (Or maybe the rule was deterministic but I didn't really fully digest it..)
You're completely right; it's not machine parseable. But it could detect the easiest stuff such as "foo. Bar" for example. And only maybe "foo, bar". But going further, that's a job for humans.
And yes, many times there are several ways to break the line while still following the rules.
But the tool (even without the newline detections) looks promising and helpful.
Thanks! I'll try to make it usable. Cheers, Alex
Thanks,
-- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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