From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:05:46 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112272059 8302 80.91.229.2 (31 Mar 2005 12:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 14:27:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGykw-00050x-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:26:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGz1d-0001Y1-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGygu-0001jd-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGygo-0001hL-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:22:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGygn-0001gQ-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:22:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.205] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGyQm-0000Q6-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so359279wri for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:05:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=HSsIzVfX2THX8VBQN0XdrMJ2Jza+nTL/CNDKLN0Fqwv3We91fbVdPPvvsFWkrrgaMCPz3m3dcJs4qpaljjNGfz2ZAHYfoO/rTgQeROJDVjN34jeCfuK1HSkf2Zjgg0nV4AJ24SXY0oaUsDLN5DtHPikarDcuy+0KspsUX1OjTuM= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.30 with SMTP id 30mr943314wrt; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:05:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:05:46 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35418 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35418 On Mar 31, 2005 8:37 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > It seem better to do as I suggested earlier, and structure it more as > a `title' in the actual tutorial file (that is, simply the words > "Emacs Tutorial" or equivalent, on a line by themselves, possibly > centered on the first line, followed by a blank line). > > this is the same as rms' design, except that TITLE is delimited by first > newline instead of first period. Rms can obviously correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you're taking his words much too literally; using a period is much more clumsy[*] than simply using a separate line and calling it a "title" in the text. [*] and wrong in some languages; using sentence movement operators would be better -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.