Hi! On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:26:36 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > > So it would be great if some numbers could be brought up first (maybe > > Andreas has a rough overview now, because he looked at the different > > kinds of itemizations). > > Well, I had not but you can get it somehow by > > for tag in "\*" "-" "+" "o" ; do > echo "Tag $tag was used `grep "^ $tag " /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l` > times" > done > > Tag \* was used 5647 times > Tag - was used 2710 times > Tag + was used 85 times > Tag o was used 282 times > > which only counts those who have proper spacing - but for a rough estimation > '*' wins definitely.
Even if we'd have to fix all the entries with wrong spacing anyway to reach correctness, I was curious to see numbers for all spacing variants for a wider representation of the characters used: ,-- count-bullet-chars.sh -- #!/bin/sh lists=/var/lib/apt/lists/*_sid_main_*_Packages total=`grep "^ *[-+\*o] " $lists | wc -l` for tag in "\*" "-" "+" "o"; do items=`grep "^ *$tag " $lists | wc -l` percent=`echo "scale=4; $items / $total * 100" | bc` echo "Tag $tag was used $items times ($percent%)" done `-- Tag \* was used 9277 times (68.0900%) Tag - was used 3837 times (28.1600%) Tag + was used 120 times (.8800%) Tag o was used 390 times (2.8600%) Regardless of the numbers though (which have moved lately slightly in favour of '-' due to the recommendations from the Smith reviewing project), I've always found the asterisk the obvious character to use for bulleted lists, as it's the one ressembling the most a bullet, and it's the one we use in changelog entries and similar. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
