Re: Formatting lists in descriptions

2015-07-15 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-15 17:28 +0300) wrote: > "Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > >> Hi - I'm late to this discussion - not sure all the issues on the table - >> but how about deferring to markdown in such cases. > > We could use a more advanced format. In that case I would prefer sexps > (but they

Re: Formatting lists in descriptions

2015-07-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > Hi - I'm late to this discussion - not sure all the issues on the table - but > how about deferring to markdown in such cases. We could use a more advanced format. In that case I would prefer sexps (but they would not play well with i18n), or, if we use a text DSL, O

RE: Formatting lists in descriptions

2015-07-14 Thread Cook, Malcolm
> 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? Shou

Re: Formatting lists in descriptions

2015-07-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost 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

Formatting lists in descriptions (was: [PATCH] gnu: Document xorg packages.)

2015-07-14 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-13 20:06 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: [...] >> And one more thing: there are "windowswmproto" and "libwindowswm" >> packages that have something to do with MS Windows and Cygwin. Do we >> need them? > > If that’s really what they are, let’s remove them. OK, I'll s