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Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 16, 2013, 18:42 UTC
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>> Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution).
>
> That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending
> on how you look at it).  It would be better to ship the HTML
> documentation, converted to text, instead of keeping the version with
> markup including occasional random \ signs, linkgit:, ``, etc.
>
> What distribution do you use?  (As maintainer of packaging for a Linux
> distro, I know at least one that is guilty of this.)
>
 From the AcsiiDoc Home Page:

=begin quote= You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats using the asciidoc(1) command. =end quote=

So, the asciidoc "source" files should be readable in their unprocessed form. And, not using tabs in ASCII art doesn't appear to have any downside.

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  1. howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII artDirk Wallenstein, Jul 15, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2013
  3. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2013
  5. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  6. 0/2 Remove tabs from howto documentsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  7. Fredrik GustafssonJul 31, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederJul 16, 2013
  9. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  10. A Large Angry SCMJul 16, 2013
  11. 1/2 howto: Suppress indentation with tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  12. 2/2 howto: Eliminate all tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2013
  14. Dirk WallensteinJul 31, 2013
  15. Piotr KrukowieckiAug 3, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2013

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