Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> But there’s no tool that really “interprets” of what’s in the >> ‘description’ field[*]. What do you mean? >> [*] Actually, ‘fill-paragraph’ from (guix ui), which is used for the >> output of ‘guix package --search’ does some very basic >> interpretation. > > Well, the output of "guix package --search" has different line breaks than > those present in the string of the description field. So something modifies > it,
Yes, that’s ‘fill-paragraph’. > maybe the scheme interpreter itself in what it does with multi-line > strings, maybe the function you mention. In any case, "x.\nY" may be > output as "x. Y"; so if we wish to have double spaces in the output, > we need to write "x. Y" on the same line. That’s really a bug in ‘fill-paragraph’. I’m filing it now and will look at it later, unless someone beats me. ;-) Ludo’.
