Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-13 20:06 +0300) wrote:
[...] >> Formatting will be lost in UIs, so this should be a comma-separated list >> instead. > > Currently the formatting is not lost in Emacs UI, but I agree on this one. The --show and --search options fill paragraphs, and now the Emacs UI does as well. :-) Same for guix-web, where the browser automatically fills things. > What about separating such entries with newspaces as it is done in some > other packages (e.g., 'signing-party') to prevent the format breaking?: Yes, why not; it’s still not very pleasant to the eye but at least it formatting will be preserved (except for guix-web, but we can fix it later.) > And as I have an unhealthy desire to organize the same things in the > same manner, what variant to choose for formatting lists? Should the > list items begin with "-" or "+" or "*" or "•" and should there be spaces > before the chosen symbol or maybe there should be just a couple of > spaces without any marker? I have a slight preference for • (which is the standard thing in English, AIUI), preceded by two spaces. The downside is that it won’t render properly on non-Unicode capable terminals (and in a non-Unicode-capable locale, Guile will emit a question mark instead), but I think that’s a price I don’t mind paying. Thoughts? Thanks, Ludo’.
