Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:44:58 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: "A.Appleyard" Cc: DJGPP AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: FAQ error In-Reply-To: <9350405C9A@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, A.Appleyard wrote: > In djgppfaq.txt unzipped from simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq201b.zip (7 July > 1996), are these lines:- > > work with EMX, and assume you unpacked everything into `/rsxwdk.' You will > `AUTOEXEC.BAT.' > `AUTOEXEC.BAT.' Is this really so important, or just a minor gripe? (I don't pretend to be the next winner of the Nobel prize for literature, you know.) More to the point: first, I think that at least american style guides always say to put the stop inside the quotes. But the real reason is much more obscure and much more difficult to deal with: the names which are single-quoted in the text version, are rendered in different font in the HTML version, and if the dot is not rendered with the same font, the word looks ugly (at least with some fonts), and may be even broken into the next line if it's too close to the line margin (that's why the HTML file is produced with preposterously large line length). In general, the tools that I've built, which allow to produce all of the different formats from the same source, are really quite fragile because of such subtle points (there are quite a few more). The result is really a compromise between what I would *want* to see and what I could achieve with reasonable amount of effort. (I usually read the FAQ in each format 2-3 times before I'm satisfied with the results.) Therefore please be more forgiving to the form (although, by all means do tell me what you think: I *will* correct those things which are correctable).