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