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Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +0000, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
>> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
>> > Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists.
>>
>> That's quite a complex document for something I believe should be
>> quite simple.
>>
>> When I use Emacs, it can reflow text (M-q) by looking at the
>> indentation level of the following lines. It can even cope with
>> bullets, outdents, indents, etc. If a frontend display routine could
>> handle that, that would solve the problem generically, and would
>> handle any level of indentation required.
>
> The heart of the document describes how to do this in a simple and
> precise way. The first section explains some reasons that it's useful
> to recognize bulleted lists, while the last couple sections have
> implementation notes and analysis of the impact on current frontends
> and Descriptions.
Sure. This was not meant to be overly critical. It's just that Emacs
has already solved the problem, and can even cope with the case of a
bullet appearing as the first character of a paragraph line. You
could just copy that algorithm.
>> Specifically regarding bullets: We now have UTF-8 encoded control
>> files, so why not simply use the UCS bullet character (U+2022)?
>
> It might make sense to recognize the Unicode bullet character,
> but forcing people to use it is not a good idea for several reasons,
> with backwards-compatibility being a major one.
ACK.
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