Re: [PATCH] doc: tidy asciidoc style

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2019, 21:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqva2f9ilv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <3206857.CYPHc56XGh@cayenne>

Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:

> These styling fixes were raised by warning of po4a when processing 
> the files. Otherwise, there's no hurry in pushing them.

Yeah, but as we postpone it, all the topics in flight that wants to touch documentation may get blocked (or cause this large patch to be redone and reexamined). I think we'd rather fast-track it after reading it over carefully (which now I have done).

> This does not affect the formatting of  man pages. For html pages,
> the content is different but there's a rule that repeated spaces are cranked
> into a single space before rendering in the browser.

Yup, that is exactly what I thought and the answer I was after. Thanks for confirming.

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>>  - How are you finding these?  
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> Editing the intermediate po for translation, the tabs are shown as special
> characters \t (in case there's some formatting  to preserve).

Ah, that makes sense.